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Discoaster
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.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 22 inbound references to Discoaster, and connects out to Haptophyta, eukaryote and Wikidata.
Vinony files it under Haptophyte genera, Index fossils and Paleocene first appearances.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
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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