Set number: 765

  • Coccolithus muiri 64100 1
  • Coccolithus muiri 64109 2
  • Coccolithus muiri 64104 3
  • Coccolithus muiri 64106 4
  • Coccolithus muiri 64101 5
  • Coccolithus muiri 64108 6
  • Coccolithus muiri 64102 7
  • Coccolithus muiri 64105 8
  • Coccolithus muiri 64092 9
  • Coccolithus muiri 64110 10
  • Coccolithus muiri 64095 11
  • Coccolithus muiri 64091 12
  • Coccolithus muiri 64093 13
  • Coccolithus muiri 64111 14
  • Coccolithus muiri 64088 15
  • Coccolithus muiri 64089 16
  • Coccolithus muiri 64107 17
  • Coccolithus muiri 64098 18
  • Coccolithus muiri 64096 19
  • Coccolithus muiri 64090 20
    10µm
Coccolithus sarsiae, Late Paleocene, DSDP Leg 25, Site 245A, Mozambique Channel (Davie Ridge), Indian Ocean

in mobile mount

Set number: 1629

  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 05686 1
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 05689 2
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 05690 3
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 05697 4
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 05687 5
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 05688 6
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 05691 7
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 05698 8
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 05695 9
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 05693 10
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 05694 11
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 05696 12
    10µm
Coccolithus sarsiae, Pleistocene, DSDP Leg 23, Site 229A, Red Sea

Set number: 1630

  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 04430 1
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 04433 2
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 04434 3
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 04439 4
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 04431 5
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 04432 6
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 04435 7
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 04441 8
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 04443 9
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 04438 10
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 04437 11
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 04440 12
    10µm
Coccolithus sarsiae, Pleistocene, DSDP Leg 23, Site 229A, Red Sea

Set number: 1631

  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 03682 1
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 03679 2
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 03683 3
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 03690 4
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 03680 5
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 03681 6
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 03684 7
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 03689 8
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 03687 9
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 03686 10
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 03685 11
  • Coccolithus sarsiae VR 03691 12
    10µm
Coccolithus sarsiae, Pleistocene, DSDP Leg 23, Site 229A, Red Sea
Final Epithet
Coccolithus sarsiae Black, 1962
Basionym

Coccolithus sarsiae Black 1962

Synonyms

Coccolithus muiri Black, 1964

Coccolithus cavus Hay & Mohler, 1967

Coccolithus tritus Roth, 1970

Coccolithus pliopelagicus Wise 1973

Coccolithus aspida Jones & Dunkley Jones, 2020

Description

Medium to large size (4.0-10.0µm), elliptical species of Coccolithus Schwarz (1894) having a closed central area.

References

Black, M., (1962): Fossil coccospheres from a Tertiary outcrop on the continental slope. - Geological Magazine. 99(2): 123-127.

Hay, W. W. & Mohler, H. P., (1967): Calcareous nannoplankton from Early Tertiary rocks at Point Labau, France and Paleocene-Early Eocene correlations. - Journal of Paleontology. 41(6): 1505-1541.

Jones, A. P. & Dunkley Jones, T., (2020): Middle Eocene to Early Oligocene calcareous nannofossils from the Nanggulan Formation, Java, Indonesia. - Journal of Nannoplankton Research. 38(1): 57-79.

Roth, P. H., (1970): Oligocene calcareous nannoplankton biostratigraphy. - Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae. 63: 799-881.

Schwarz, E. H. L. (1894): Coccoliths. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 14: 341-346.

Wise, S. W., (1973): Calcareous nannofossils from cores recovered during Leg 18, Deep Sea Drilling Project: biostratigraphy and observations on diagenesis. - Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. 18: 569-615.