overview (8)
Arkhangelskiales (2)
Eiffellithales (3)
Holococcoliths (26)
Nannoliths (10)
Podorhabdales (7)
Watznaueriales (1)
Coccolithus staurion Bramlette & Sullivan, 1961
Description: Large to very large (7-15 µm) Coccolithus with a narrow central area and axial cross bars.
Remarks:
Synonym:
Ericsonia insolita Perch-Nielsen, 1971.
Neogene: Coccolithus
Paleogene: Coccolithus staurion
Coccolithus mutatus (Perch-Nielsen, 1971) Bown, 2005
Description: Very large (>14 µm) Coccolithus with wide central area and narrow, axial to slightly rotated cross bars.
Remarks:
Neogene: Coccolithus
Paleogene: Coccolithus mutatus
Coccolithus latus Bown, 2005
Description: Medium to large elliptical Coccolithus with wide (> width of the shields) vacant central area.
Remarks:
Holotype: Paratype:
Neogene: Coccolithus
Paleogene: Coccolithus latus
Coccolithus formosus (Kamptner, 1963) Wise 1973
Description: Large circular Coccolithus with narrow central area.
Remarks:
Neogene: Coccolithus
Paleogene: Coccolithus formosus
Coccolithus foraminis Bown, 2005
Description: Large subcircular Coccolithus with wide and vacant central area (< or = to the width of the shields).
Remarks:
Holotype: Paratype:
Neogene: Coccolithus
Paleogene: Coccolithus foraminis
Coccolithus eopelagicus (Bramlette & Riedel, 1954) Bramlette & Sullivan, 1961
Description: Like C. pelagicus but very large (>14 µm).
Remarks:
Neogene: Coccolithus
Paleogene: Coccolithus eopelagicus
Coccolithus crucis Bown, 2005
Description: Large circular Coccolithus with narrow central area spanned by thin cross-bars.
Remarks:
Holotype: Paratype:
Neogene: Coccolithus
Paleogene: Coccolithus crucis
Coccolithus cachaoi Bown, 2005
Description: Medium to large elliptical Coccolithus with narrow central area filled or almost filled by a broad transverse disjunct bar.
Remarks:
Holotype: Paratype:
Neogene: Coccolithus
Paleogene: Coccolithus cachaoi
Coccolithus bownii Jiang and Wise, 2007
Description: Medium to large broadly elliptical to subcircular Coccolithus
with a broad, open, central-area.
Remarks:
Neogene: Coccolithus
Paleogene: Coccolithus bownii
Clausicoccus Prins, 1979
Description: Coccolith rim structure similar to that of Coccolithus, but with a perforate plate covering the central area on the distal side. Centro-distal cycle (bright in XPL) may be narrow or reduced.
Remarks:
Type species: Clausicoccus fenestratus (Deflandre & Fert, 1954) Prins, 1979. [Discolithus]
Neogene: Clausicoccus; Clausicoccus fenestratus; Coccolithus
Paleogene: Clausicoccus; Clausicoccus fenestratus