Coccolithophyceae - Podorhabdales - Biscutaceae

Synonym: Costacentrum Bukry 1969

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

See also Perch-Nielsen 1985

Sister taxa: Biscutum, Boletuvelum, Crucibiscutum, Discorhabdus, Gaarderella, Gephyrobiscutum, Seribiscutum, Similiscutum

Subtaxa: Sollasites arctus Sollasites arcuatus Sollasites concentricus Sollasites falklandensis Sollasites horticus Sollasites lowei

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Type: Coccolithus horticus

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at Heisterholz, near Petershagen, Nordrhein-Westfalen (Cretaceous of Germany)

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