†family Biscutaceae Black 1971 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Podorhabdales - Biscutaceae

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

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

Subtaxa: Biscutum Boletuvelum Crucibiscutum Discorhabdus Gaarderella Gephyrobiscutum Seribiscutum Similiscutum Sollasites

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Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Germany (1 collection)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (2), Belgium (1), Canada (5: Alberta), Germany (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (17)

• Jurassic of France (1), Germany (7), Morocco (5), Saudi Arabia (2), Spain (121), Switzerland (1)

Total: 166 collections including 597 occurrences

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