Ethmorhabdus hauterivianus Black et al. 1971 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Podorhabdales - Axopodorhabdaceae

Alternative combination: Cribrosphaera hauterivianus

Belongs to Ethmorhabdus according to E. de Kaenel and J. A. Bergen 1996

See also Bown 1998

Sister taxa: Ethmorhabdus anglicus, Ethmorhabdus cameratus, Ethmorhabdus crucifer, Ethmorhabdus gallicus

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

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

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