†Pentaster Bybell and Gartner 1972 (haptophyte alga)
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Coccolithophyceae - Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Full reference: L. M. Bybell and S. Gartner. 1972. Provincialism among mid-Eocene calcareous nannofossils. Micropaleontology 18(3):319-336
Parent taxon: Braarudosphaeraceae according to L. M. Bybell and S. Gartner 1972
Sister taxa: Braarudosphaera, Bukryaster, Micrantholithus, Quinquerhabdus, Trapezopentus
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Pentaster in the database
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