Staurolithites lumina Bown 1998 (haptophyte alga)

Coccolithophyceae - Eiffellithales - Chiastozygaceae

Full reference: P. R. Bown. 1998. Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy. Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy, Kluwer Academic 1-315

Belongs to Staurolithites according to P. R. Bown 1998

Sister taxa: Staurolithites aachenus, Staurolithites aenigma, Staurolithites angustus, Staurolithites crux, Staurolithites dentatus, Staurolithites dorfii, Staurolithites ellipticus, Staurolithites elongatus, Staurolithites flavus, Staurolithites gausorhethium, Staurolithites glaber, Staurolithites imbricatus, Staurolithites integer, Staurolithites laffittei, Staurolithites leptostaurus, Staurolithites mielnicensis, Staurolithites minutus, Staurolithites mitcheneri, Staurolithites mutterlosei, Staurolithites parma, Staurolithites quadriarculla, Staurolithites rotatus, Staurolithites siesseri, Staurolithites stradneri, Staurolithites zoensis

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Staurolithites lumina in the database

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