Micrantholithus

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Genus Micrantholithus Deflandre in Deflandre and Fert, 1954

Description: Similar to Braarudosphaera but sutures emerge through corners of pentalith and edge often indented.

Remarks: Most of the common Eocene species have been recorded in the Miocene but only sporadically and not in open-ocean deposits.

Geological Time Data

Geological Time Periods:

NN9

Cretaceous

Biblio Reference:

Young, JR. 1998. Neogene. Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy. :225-265.

Notes on occurrence information:

Questions occur over the end of this range

Nannotax Enabling nannofossil research