†Conusphaera Trejo 1969 (haptophyte alga)
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Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Synonym: Cretaturbella Thierstein 1971
Parent taxon: Eoconusphaeraceae according to P. R. Bown and J. R. Young 1997
See also Farinacci 1969
Sister taxa: Calcivascularis, Eoconusphaera
Subtaxa: Conusphaera mexicana Conusphaera rothii Conusphaera sinespina
Type: Conusphaera mexicana
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution: found only at Heisterholz, near Petershagen, Nordrhein-Westfalen (Cretaceous of Germany)
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