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Sign in to saveDiscoaster 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.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomChromista
- PhylumHaptophyta
- ClassPrymnesiophyceae
- OrderDiscoasterales
- FamilyDiscoasteraceae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 62
- With media
- 9
- Family
- Discoasteraceae
- Collections
- UCMP, USNM
- Recorded in
- United States, Trinidad
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Image
- Discoaster surculus 01.jpg
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- Commons category
- Discoaster
- temporal range start
- Paleocene
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Discoaster
- temporal range end
- Pleistocene
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