†family Cretarhabdaceae Thierstein 1973 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Podorhabdales - Cretarhabdaceae

Parent taxon: Podorhabdales according to P. R. Bown and J. R. Young 1997

Sister taxa: Axopodorhabdaceae, Biscutaceae, Calyculaceae, Mazaganellaceae, Prediscosphaeraceae, Tubodiscaceae

Subtaxa: Cretarhabdus Cruciellipsis Flabellites Grantarhabdus Helenea Miravetesina Pickelhaube Polypodorhabdus Retecapsa Speetonia

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Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Paleocene of Tanzania (1 collection)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (4), Austria (1), Canada (5: Alberta), Croatia (1), France (1), Germany (1), Israel (1), Romania (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (41), Tanzania (3)

• Jurassic of Germany (5), Saudi Arabia (1)

Total: 67 collections including 79 occurrences

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