Distinguishing features:
Parent taxon (Eprolithus): Moderately tall, circular to stellate, multiradiate nannoliths with 5-9 petaloid wall-cycle elements surrounding a wide central area spanned by a median diaphragm. Typically H-shaped in side view.
This taxon: Eprolithus with six wall-elements.
Most likely ancestor:
Eprolithus moratus - at confidence level 0 (out of 5). Data source: Varol 1992.
| LITHS: nannolith-radiate, star-shaped, cylindrical, CA: closed, CROSS-POLARS: T-prominent, |
| Lith size: 5->8µm; Segments: 6->6; Data source notes: original description & illustrated specimens |
Geological Range:
Last occurrence (top): within Campanian Stage (72.17-83.65Ma, top in Campanian stage). Data source: Burnett 1998
First occurrence (base): within Turonian Stage (89.39-93.90Ma, base in Turonian stage). Data source: Burnett 1998
Plot of occurrence data:
Bralower, T. J. & Bergen, J. A. (1998). Cenomanian-Santonian calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of a transect of cores drilled across the Western Interior Seaway. In, Dean, W. E. & Arthur, M. A. (eds) Stratigraphy and paleoenvironments of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway. SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology . (6): -. gs Burnett, J. A. (1998). Upper Cretaceous. In, Bown, P. R. (ed.) Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy. British Micropalaeontological Society Publication Series . 132-199. gs O Linnert, C., Mutterlose, J. & Erbacher, J. (2010). Calcareous nannofossils of the Cenomanian/Turonian boundary interval from the Boreal Realm (Wunstorf, northwest Germany). Marine Micropaleontology. 74: 38-58. gs Püttmann, T. & Mutterlose, J. (2019). Calcareous nannofossils from a Late Cretaceous nearshore setting. Journal of Nannoplankton Research. S4: 81-88. gs Varol, O. (1992). Taxonomic revision of the Polycyclolithaceae and its contribution to Cretaceous biostratigraphy. Newsletters on Stratigraphy. 27(93-127): -. gsReferences:

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Eprolithus rarus compiled by Jeremy R. Young, Paul R. Bown, Jacqueline A. Lees viewed: 11-8-2026
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