Set number: 389

  • Coronosphaera mediterranea 26502 1
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea 26500 2
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea 26498 3
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea 26506 4
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea 26503 5
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea 26501 6
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea 26499 7
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea 26504 8
    10µm
Coconosphaera mediterranea, Middle Miocene, Malta

Set number: 390

  • Coronosphaera mediterranea 27454 1
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea 27453 2
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea 27449 3
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea 27458 4
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea 27455 5
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea 27452 6
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea 27451 7
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea 27457 8
    10µm
Coronosphaera mediterranea, Middle Miocene, Malta

Set number: 1626

  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 05962 1
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 05965 2
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 05966 3
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 05969 4
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 05963 5
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 05964 6
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 05967 7
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 05968 8
    10µm
Coronosphaera mediterranea, Pleistocene, DSDP Leg 23, Site 229A, Red Sea

Set number: 1627

  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04945 1
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04940 2
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04943 3
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04951 4
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04944 5
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04941 6
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04942 7
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04950 8
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04946 9
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04947 10
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04948 11
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04952 12
    10µm
Coronosphaera mediterranea, Pleistocene, DSDP Leg 23, Site 229A, Red Sea

Set number: 1321

  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04668 1
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04665 2
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04669 3
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04677 4
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04667 5
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04666 6
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04670 7
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04676 8
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04674 9
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04675 10
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04671 11
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 04678 12
    10µm
Coronosphaera mediterranea, Pleistocene, DSDP Leg 23, Site 229A, Red Sea

Set number: 1320

  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03566 1
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03565 2
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03569 3
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03576 4
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03567 5
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03564 6
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03568 7
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03575 8
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03573 9
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03571 10
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03572 11
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03577 12
    10µm
Coronosphaera mediterranea, Pleistocene, DSDP Leg 23, Site 229A, Red Sea

Set number: 1628

  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03521 1
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03522 2
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03526 3
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03534 4
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03520 5
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03523 6
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03524 7
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03533 8
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03531 9
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03529 10
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03530 11
  • Coronosphaera mediterranea VR 03535 12
    10µm
Coronosphaera mediterranea, Pleistocene, DSDP Leg 23, Site 229A, Red Sea

Set number: 780

  • Coronosphaera clathrata 877 11 1
    2µm
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.