Coccolithophyceae - Eiffellithales - Chiastozygaceae
Synonym: Glaukolithus Reinhardt 1964
Parent taxon: Chiastozygaceae according to P. R. Bown and J. R. Young 1997
Sister taxa: Ahmuellerella, Amphizygus, Archaeozygodiscus, Bownia, Bukrylithus, Chiastozygus, Clepsilithus, Crepidolithus, Diadorhombus, Gorkaea, Heteromarginatus, Jakubowskia, Loxolithus, Misceomarginatus, Monomarginatus, Neocrepidolithus, Placozygus, Reinhardtites, Retemediaformis, Rhabdophidites, Staurolithites, Tranolithus, Tubirhabdus
Subtaxa: Zeugrhabdotus bicrescenticus Zeugrhabdotus biperforatus Zeugrhabdotus burwellensis Zeugrhabdotus clarus Zeugrhabdotus cooperi Zeugrhabdotus diplogrammus Zeugrhabdotus embergeri Zeugrhabdotus erectus Zeugrhabdotus fissus Zeugrhabdotus kerguelenensis Zeugrhabdotus noeliae Zeugrhabdotus petrizzoae Zeugrhabdotus praesigmoides Zeugrhabdotus scutula Zeugrhabdotus sigmoides Zeugrhabdotus spiralis Zeugrhabdotus trivectis Zeugrhabdotus xenotus
Type: Zygolithus erectus
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Argentina (1 collection), Tanzania (1), United States (2: Missouri)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Austria (1), France (1), Germany (1), Tanzania (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Jurassic of Germany (4), Saudi Arabia (2), Spain (13)
Total: 29 collections including 39 occurrences
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