Pocillithus Dunkley Jones, P.R.Brown & P.N.Pearson, 2009
Holotype species: Pocillithus spinulifer Dunkley Jones & al.
Original publication and holotype designation: Dunkley Jones, T., Bown, P.R. & Pearson, P.N. (2009). Exceptionally well preserved upper Eocene to lower Oligocene calcareous nannofossils (Prymnesiophycidae) from the Pande Formation (Kilwa Group), Tanzania. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 7(4): 359-411.
Request PDFFossil: This is a genus of fossil species, or a genus with a fossil type species, or a genus the type species of which was originally described as a fossil.
Description: Miniscule to small murolith coccoliths that have tall narrow spines in the type species Poncillithus spinulifer that extend from a small basal disc. The spines have a narrow axial canal and are usually seen in side view.
Information contributed by: Original description.. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-02-28 by M.D. Guiry.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Gender: This genus name is currently treated as masculine.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Keuter, S., Young, J.R., Koplovitz, G., Zigone, A. & Frada, M.J. (2021). Novel heterococcolithophores, holococcolithophores and life cycle combinations from the families Syracosphaeraceae and Papposphaeraceae and the genus Florisphaera. Journal of Micropalaoentology 40: 75-99, 16 figs.
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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 28 February 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 26 April 2024
