Английская Википедия:Discoaster
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Italic title Шаблон:Taxobox Шаблон:Commons category Discoaster 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.[1]
Biostratigraphic significance
The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) has assigned the extinction of Discoaster brouweri as the defining biological marker for the start of the Calabrian Stage of the Pleistocene, 1.806 million years ago. ICS has assigned the extinction of Discoaster pentaradiatus and Discoaster surculus as the defining biological marker for the start of the Gelasian Stage, 2.588 million years ago, the earliest stage of the Pleistocene. ICS further assigned the extinction of Discoaster kugleri as biological marker for the start of the Tortonian Stage of the Miocene, 11.62 million years ago.
Species
Some species in this genus include:[1][2][3]
Шаблон:Big Species Authority D. asymmetricus Шаблон:Small D. bellus Шаблон:Small D. berggrenii Шаблон:Small D. bollii Шаблон:Small D. brouweri Шаблон:Small D. calcaris Шаблон:Small D. exilis Шаблон:Small D. hamatus Шаблон:Small D. intercalaris Шаблон:Small D. kugleri Шаблон:Small D. loeblichii Шаблон:Small D. neohamatus Шаблон:Small D. neorectus Шаблон:Small D. pentaradiatus Шаблон:Small D. quintatus Шаблон:Small D. surculus Шаблон:Small D. toralus Шаблон:Small D. triradiatus Шаблон:Small D. variabilis Шаблон:Small D. arneyi Шаблон:Center
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