Eiffellithus parvus Watkins and Bergen 2003 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Eiffellithales - Eiffellithaceae

Full reference: D. K. Watkins and J. A. Bergen. 2003. Late Albian adaptive radiation in the calcareous nannofossil genus Eiffellithus. Micropaleontology. 49:231-252

Belongs to Eiffellithus according to D. K. Watkins and J. A. Bergen 2003

Sister taxa: Eiffellithus equibiramus, Eiffellithus eximius, Eiffellithus gorkae, Eiffellithus hancockii, Eiffellithus monechiae, Eiffellithus parallelus, Eiffellithus pospichalii, Eiffellithus praestigium, Eiffellithus primus, Eiffellithus striatus, Eiffellithus turriseiffelii, Eiffellithus vonsalisiae, Eiffellithus windii

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Eiffellithus parvus in the database

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