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Coccolithales

Coccolithales is an order of creatures. There are 22 species of Coccolithales, in 17 genera and 4 families. This order has been around since the selandian age. It includes groups like Coccolithaceae, Hymenomonadaceae, and Calcidiscaceae. They are passively mobile organisms.

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URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/passivelyMobile
Definition: Organisms that are mobile but do not move actively, e.g., floating organisms and epibionts on living mobile organisms.
Attribution: http://paleodb.org/public/tips/ecology_tips.html

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EOL has data for 7 attributes, including:

ecomorphological guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/EcomorphologicalGuild
- Definition: organisms that share certain morphological traits due to adaptation to similar environments and ecological roles
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algae
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q37868
- Definition: aquatic, photosynthetic, and non vascular eukaryotic organisms (a polyphyletic group)
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first appearance
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FossilFirst
- Definition: The first appearance of this taxon in the fossil record.
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61.6 million years ago
habitat
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002303
- Definition: x has habitat y if: x is an organism, y is a habitat, and y can sustain and allow the growth of a population of x
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marine
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000447
- Definition: An aquatic biome that comprises systems of open-ocean and unprotected coastal habitats, characterized by exposure to wave action, tidal fluctuation, and ocean currents as well as systems that largely resemble these. Water in the marine biome is generally within the salinity range of seawater: 30 to 38 ppt.
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number of fossil occurrences
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/fossilOccPBDB
- Definition: The number of fossil occurrences in the Paleobiology Database (https://paleobiodb.org) that are identified as belonging to a particular taxon or any of its subtaxa.
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17

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Coccolithales. View this species on GBIF

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Coccolithales includes 4 children: