Prymnesiophyceae

PaleoDB taxon number: 87648

Parent taxon: Prymnesiophyceae according to P. R. Bown and J. R. Young 1997

Sister taxa: Coccolithales, Discoasterales, Isochrysidales, Phaeocystales, Prymnesiales, Zygodiscales, Calyptrosphaeraceae, Prymnesiophycidae, Goniolithaceae, Syracosphaerales, Eiffellithales, Lapideacassaceae, Cyclicargolithus, Sphenolithus, Calcidiscus, Podorhabdales, Stephanolithiales, Arkhangelskiales, Eodiscoaster

Subtaxa: Watznaueriaceae

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Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"