Micrantholithus speetonensis Perch-Nielsen 1979 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae

Belongs to Micrantholithus according to P. R. Bown 1998

Sister taxa: Micrantholithus altus, Micrantholithus brevis, Micrantholithus flos, Micrantholithus hoschulzii, Micrantholithus obtusus, Micrantholithus quasihoschulzii

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

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

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