Discoaster bellus Bukry and Percival 1971 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae

Belongs to Discoaster according to Bukry and Percival 1971

Sister taxa: Discoaster adamanteus, Discoaster brouweri, Discoaster deflandrei, Discoaster intercalaris, Discoaster quinqueramus, Discoaster surculus, Discoaster variabilis

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at Gergeri-Raptis, silty clays, sample KR61 (Miocene of Greece)

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