Coronosphaera mediterranea

(Lohmann, 1902) Gaarder in Gaarder & Heimdal, 1977 Sep 15, 2020

Set number: 389

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Coconosphaera mediterranea, Middle Miocene, Malta

Set number: 390

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Coronosphaera mediterranea, Middle Miocene, Malta

Set number: 1626

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Coronosphaera mediterranea, Pleistocene, DSDP Leg 23, Site 229A, Red Sea

Set number: 1627

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Coronosphaera mediterranea, Pleistocene, DSDP Leg 23, Site 229A, Red Sea

Set number: 1321

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Coronosphaera mediterranea, Pleistocene, DSDP Leg 23, Site 229A, Red Sea

Set number: 1320

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Coronosphaera mediterranea, Pleistocene, DSDP Leg 23, Site 229A, Red Sea

Set number: 1628

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Coronosphaera mediterranea, Pleistocene, DSDP Leg 23, Site 229A, Red Sea

Set number: 780

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Coronosphaera mediterranea, Middle Miocene, Antakya, Hatay, Turkey

Final Epithet

Coronosphaera mediterranea (Lohmann, 1902) Gaarder in Gaarder & Heimdal, 1977

Basionym

Syracosphaera mediterranea Lohmann, 1902

Synonyms

Syracosphaera tuberculata Kamptner, 1937

Syracosphaera pulchroides Halldal & Markali, 1955

Variants

Syracosphaera mediterranea binodata Kamptner 1927

Coronosphaera binodata (Kamptner 1927) Gaarder in Gaarder & Heimdal, 1977

Occurrence

Worldwide

References

Cortés, M. Y. & Bollmann, J., (2002): A new combination coccosphere of the heterococcolith species Coronosphaera mediterranea and the holococcolith species Calyptrolithophora hasleana. - European Journal of Phycology. 37: 145-146.

Cros, L., Kleijne, A., Zeltner, A., Billard, C. & Young, J. R., (2000b): New examples of holococcolith-heterococcolith combination coccospheres and their implications for coccolithophorid biology. In, Young, J. R. , Thierstein, H. R. & Winter, A. (eds) Nannoplankton ecology and palaeocology, Proceedings of the INA7 conference, Puerto Rico, February 2002. - Marine Micropaleontology. 39(1-4): 1-34.

Gaarder, K. R., (1962): Electron Microscope Studies on Holococcolithophorids.- Nytt Magasin for Botanikk. 10: 35-51.

Gaarder, K. R. & Heimdal, B. R., (1977): A revision of the genus Syracosphaera Lohmann (Coccolithineae). - “Meteor” Forschungsergebnisse, Reihe D, Biologie. 24: 54-71.

Halldal, P. & Markali, J., (1955): Electron microscope studies on coccolithophorids from the Norwegian Sea, the Gulf Stream and the Mediterranean. - Avhandlinger utgitt av det Norske Videnskapsakademi i Oslo. Matematisk-Naturvidenskapelig Klasse. 1955(1): 1-30.

Heimdal, B. R. & Gaarder, K. R., (1980): Coccolithophorids from the northern part of the eastern central Atlantic I. Holococcolithophorids. - “Meteor” Forschungsergebnisse, Reihe D, Biologie. 32: 1-14.

Kamptner, E., (1927): Beitrag zur Kenntnis adriatischer Coccolithophoriden. - Archiv für Protistenkunde. 58: 173-184.

Kamptner, E., (1937): Neue und bemerkenswerte Coccolithineen aus dem Mittelmeer. Arch. Protistenk., 89: 279- 316.

Kamptner, E., (1941): Die Coccolithineen der Südwestküste von Istrien. - Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. 51: 54-149.

Lohmann, H. (1902): Die Coccolithophoridae, eine Monographie der Coccolithen bildenden Flagellaten, zugleich ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis des Mittelmeerauftriebs. - Archiv für Protistenkunde. 1: 89-165.

Triantaphyllou, M. V., Karatsolis, B., Dimiza, M.D. et al., (2015): Coccolithophore combination coccospheres from the NE Mediterranean Sea: new evidence and taxonomic revisions. - Micropaleontology. 61(6): 457-472.

Taxonomy

Coronosphaera

Biostratigraphy

Stratigraphic Range

Aquitanian - Recent

Age (Ma)

23.04? - 0.00?

Holotype

Syracosphaera mediterranea Lohmann, 1902

Recent

Near Syracuse, Italy