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Current identification/main database link: Ceratolithaceae Norris 1965 emend Young & Bown 2014
Compiled data
Cellulae sine flagellis, coccolithis typo maxime differentibus praeditae; une singulo coccolitho soleaformi, protoplastum cingente, altero coccolitho anuliformi, multis ad sphaeram quae protoplastum atque singulum cius coccolithum solea-formem includit, formandam inter se adhaerentibus. Unicum genus: Ceratolithus.
Original Description
Cells without flagella; with coccoliths of two extremely different types - one a single horseshoe-shaped coccolith that engirdles the protoplast, the other coccolith ring-shaped, and many of them adhering together to form a sphere that encloses the protoplast and its single horseshoe-shaped coccolith. A single genus: Ceratolithus. .
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Ceratolithaceae: Catalog entry compiled by <% compiler %>. Viewed: 19-8-2026
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