Distinguishing features: Keeled sphere, constructed from hour glass-shaped crystallites.
Daughter taxa: (blue => in age window 0-800Ma) | ||||
Centosphaera sp. Specimens not identified to species level |
Taxonomy:
Farinacci & Howe catalog pages: Centosphaera *
Distinguishing features: Keeled sphere, constructed from hour glass-shaped crystallites.
Search data:Tags | LITHS: |
Metrics | Lith size: 0->0µm; |
Geological Range:
Last occurrence (top): Extant Data source: Total of range of species in this database
First occurrence (base): at top of No known fossil record modern (100% up, 0Ma, in "Holocene" stage). Data source: Total of range of species in this database
Plot of occurrence data:
Fütterer, D. K. (1990). Distribution of calcareous dinoflagellates at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary of Queen Maud Rise, eastern Weddell Sea, Antarctica (ODP Leg 113). Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results. 113: 533-548. gs V O Wise, S. W. & Wind, F. H. (1977). Mesozoic and Cenozoic calcareous nannofossils recovered by DSDP Leg 36 drilling on the Falkland Plateau, south-west Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. 36(269-491): -. gs V OReferences:
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Centosphaera compiled by Jeremy R. Young, Paul R. Bown, Jacqueline A. Lees viewed: 19-1-2021
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