This mentioned taxonomy is an attempt to make an conclusive assignment from the different classifications of various scientists. Because the taxonomy may change due to the latest investigative methods and other findings, our map is a guide only.
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Corresponding author (Name, Year)
Rothmaler, 1951
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scientific
Coccolithophyceae
Alternative Name
scientific
Prymnesiophyceae
Hibberd, 1976
Ref.: P. R. Bown and J. R. Young. 1997. Mesozoic calcareous nannoplankton classification. Journal of Nannoplankton Research. 19:21-36
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J. Fresnel, 1991 - Pleurochrysis placolithoides sp. nov. (Prymnesiophyceae), a new marine coccolithophorid with remarks on the status of cricolith-bearing species - British Phycological Journal (26), 67-80 (journal article, English)
T. Bralower, 1989 - Calcareous nannofossil zonation of the Jurassic- Cretaceous boundary interval and correlation with the Geomagnetic Polarity Timescale. - Marine Micropaleontology (14), 153-235 (journal article, English)
O. Varol, 1989 - Palaeocene calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy. In, Crux, J. A. & van Heck, S. E. (eds) Nannofossils and their applications: Proceedings of the 2nd INA Conference, London 1987 - British Micropalaeontological Society Publication Series (), 265-310 (journal article, English)
O. Varol, 1989 - Calcareous nannofossil study of the central and western Solomon Islands - Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources Earth Sciences (), 239-268 (book, English)
O. Varol, 1989 - Eocene calcareous nannofossils from Sile (northwest Turkey) - Revista Española de MicropaleontologÃa (21), 273-320 (journal article, English)
J. M. Covington, 1987 - Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of a Lower Cretaceous deep-sea fan complex: Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 93 Site 603, lower continental rise off Cape Hatteras - Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (93), 617-660 (journal article, English)
P. R. Bown, 1987 - Taxonomy, biostratigraphy, and evolution of late Triassic-early Jurassic calcareous nannofossils. - Special Papers in Palaeontology (38), 1-118 (journal article, English)
K. Perch-Nielsen, 1985 - Mesozoic calcareous nannofossils. - in H. H. Bolli, J. B. Saunders, and K. Perch-Nielsen, eds., Plankton Stratigraphy. Cambridge University Press. (), 329-426 (book/book chapter, English)
K. Perch-Nielsen, 1985 - Cenozoic calcareous nannofossils - in H. M. Bolli, J. B Saunders and K. Perch-Nielsen, eds., Plankton Stratigraphy, Cambridge University Press. (), 427-554 (book/book chapter, English)
S. Theodoridis, 1984 - Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the Miocene and revision of the helicoliths and discoasters - Utrecht Micropaleontological Bulletin (32), 1-271 (journal article, English)
P. C. Silva, 1980 - Names of classes and families of living algae: with special reference to their use in the Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum) - Regnum Vegetabile (103), 1-156 (journal article, English)
B. Prins, 1979 - Notes on nannology 1. Clausicoccus, a new genus of fossil Coccolithophorids - INA Newsletter (1), N2-N4 (journal article, English)
W. W. Hay, 1977 - Calcareous nannofossils - Oceanic Micropalaentology (), 1055-1200 (book, English)
J. W. Verbeek, 1977 - Calcareous nannoplankton biostratigraphy of Middle and Upper Cretaceous deposits in Tunisia, southern Spain and France - Utrecht University, Doctoral Dissertation (), - (Ph.D. thesis, English)
S. W. Wise, 1977 - Mesozoic and Cenozoic calcareous nannofossils recovered by DSDP Leg 36 drilling on the Falkand Plateau, southwest Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean - Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (36), 269-491 (journal article, English)
S. W. Wise, 1976 - Mid Eocene Planktonic Correlations: Northern Italy-Jamaica, W. I - Transactions of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies (26), 144-155 (journal article, English)
H. Okada, 1973 - The distribution of oceanic coccolithophorids in the Pacific - Deep-Sea Research (20), 355-374 (journal article, English)
P. H. Roth, 1973 - Calcareous nannofossils: Leg 17 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project - Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (17), 695-795 (book chapter, English)
D. Bukry, 1973 - Coccolith stratigraphy, eastern equatorial Pacific, Leg 16, Deep Sea Drilling Project - Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (16), 653-711 (journal article, English)
M. Black, 1971 - The systematics of coccoliths in relation to the paleontological record - The Micropaleontology of the Oceans (), 611-624 (book chapter, English)
D. Bukry, 1971 - Validation of Pedinocyclus and Quinquerhabdus new calcareous nannoplankton genera - Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology (8), 122- (journal article, English)
K. Perch-Nielsen, 1971 - Elektronenmikroskopische untersuchungen an Coccolithen und verwandten Formen aus dem Eozan von Danemark - Biologiske Skrifter, Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab (18), 1-76 (journal article, German)
P. H. Roth, 1970 - Oligocene calcareous nannoplankton biostratigraphy - Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae (63), 799-881 (journal article, English)
H. N. Andrews, 1970 - Index of Generic Names of Fossil Plants, 1820-1965 - Geological Survey Bulletin (), 1-354 (serial monograph, English)
S. Gartner, 1969 - Tertiary holococcoliths - Journal of Paleontology (43), 1213-1221 (journal article, English)
A. Farinacci, 1969 - - Catalogue of Calcareous Nannofossils, Edizioni Tecnoscienza, Roma (), - (serial monograph, English)
M. V. Achuthan, 1969 - Calcareous nannoplankton from the Wemmelian stratotype. In, Brönnimann, P. & Renz, H. H. (eds) - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Planktonic Microfossils, Geneva 1967 (1), 1-13 (journal article, English)
J. -C. Fischer, 1969 - Geologie, Paleontologie et Paleoecologie du Bathonien au sud-ouest du Massif Ardennais - Memoires du Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Nouvelle Serie, Serie C, Sciences de la terre (20), 1-319 (serial monograph, French)
S. Gartner, 1969 - Two new calcareous nannofossils from the Gulf Coast Eocene - Micropaleontology (15), 31-34 (journal article, English)
W. W. Hay, 1967 - Calcareous nannoplankton from Early Tertiary rocks at Point Labau, France and Paleocene-Early Eocene correlations - Journal of Paleontology (41), 1505-1541 (journal article, English)
M. N. Bramlette, 1967 - Middle Tertiary calcareous nannoplankton of the Cipero section, Trinidad, W.I - Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology (5), 93-131 (journal article, English)
W. W. Hay, 1967 - Calcareous nannoplankton zonation of the Cenozoic of the Gulf Coast and Caribbean-Antillean area, and transoceanic correlation - Transactions of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies (17), 428-480 (journal article, English)
H. Stradner, 1966 - Nannofossilien aus Bohrkernen und ihre elektronenmikroskopische Bearbeitung - Erdoel-Erdgas Zeitschrift (82), 330-341 (journal article, English)
W. W. Hay, 1966 - Calcareous nannofossils from Nal'chik (northwest Caucasus) - Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae (59), 379-399 (journal article, English)
R. E. Norris, 1965 - Living cells of Ceratolithus cristatus (Coccolithophorineae) - Archiv für Protistenkunde (108), 19-21 (journal article, English)
M. Black, 1964 - Cretaceous and Tertiary coccoliths from Atlantic seamounts - Palaeontology (7), 306-316 (journal article, English)
F. R. Sullivan, 1964 - Lower Tertiary nannoplankton from the California Coast Ranges. I. Paleocene - University of California Publications in Geological Sciences (44), 163-227 (book chapter, English)
M. N. Bramlette, 1964 - The great change in calcareous nannoplankton fossils between the Maestrichtian and Danian - Micropaleontology (10), 291-322 (journal article, English)
I. A. Shamrai, 1963 - Nekotorye formy verkhnemelovykh i paleogenovykh kokkolitov i disko_asterov na yuge russkol platformy [Certain forms of Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene coccoliths and discoasters from the southern Russian Platform] - Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedeniy Geologiya i Razvedka (6), 27-40 (book, Russian)
E. Kamptner, 1963 - Coccolithineen-Skelettreste aus Tiefseeablagerungen des Pazifischen Ozeans - Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien (66), 139-204 (journal article, German)
H. Stradner, 1962 - Über neue und wenig bekannte Nannofossilien aus Kreide und Alttertiär - Verhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt (2), 363-377 (journal article, German)
W. W. Hay, 1962 - Electron microscope examination of some coccoliths from Donzacq (France) - Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae (55), 497-517 (journal article, English)
M. N. Bramlette, 1961 - Coccolithophorids and related nannoplankton of the Early Tertiary in California - Micropaleontology (7), 129-188 (journal article, English)
V. N. Vekshina, 1959 - Coccolithophoridae in Maastrichtian deposits of the Western Siberian Lowland. - Tr. Sibirsk, Nauchn.- Issled. Geol. Geofiz. i Mineraln Syr'ya, (2), 56-77 (journal article, English)
G. F. Papenfuss, 1955 - Classification of the algae - A century of progress in the natural sciences, 1853-1953 (), 115-224 (book, English)
W. Rothmaler, 1951 - Die Abteilungen und Klassen der Pflanzen - Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis (54), 256-266 (journal article, German)
E. Kamptner, 1950 - Über den submikroskopischen Aufbau der Coccolithen - Anzeiger der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematische-Naturwissenschafliche Klasse, Wien (87), 152-158 (journal article, German)
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