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Discoaster kugleri
Description | Discoaster is a genus of extinct star-shaped marine algae, with calcareous exoskeletons of between 5-40 μm across that are abundant as nanofossils in tropical deep-ocean deposits of Neogene age. Discoaster belongs to the haptophytes. About 100 species can be recognized. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discoaster_kugleri, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rank | species | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Chromista : Haptophyta : Prymnesiophyceae : Discoasterales : Discoasteraceae : Discoaster : Discoaster kugleri | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Generic Name | Discoaster | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scientific Name | Discoaster kugleri Martini & Bramlette | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discoaster_kugleri |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!