Eiffellithus Reinhardt 1965 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Eiffellithales - Eiffellithaceae

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

Sister taxa: Diloma, Helicolithus, Rothia, Tegumentum

Subtaxa: Eiffellithus equibiramus Eiffellithus eximius Eiffellithus gorkae Eiffellithus hancockii Eiffellithus monechiae Eiffellithus parallelus Eiffellithus parvus Eiffellithus pospichalii Eiffellithus praestigium Eiffellithus primus Eiffellithus striatus Eiffellithus turriseiffelii Eiffellithus vonsalisiae Eiffellithus windii

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Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Miocene of Slovenia (1 collection)

• Paleocene of Tanzania (1)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (8), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Canada (6: Alberta), France (1), Germany (1), Israel (1), Tanzania (4), United States (1: Kansas)

Total: 26 collections including 43 occurrences

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