Table 3. Coccolith species investigated in this study.

Genus Emiliania Hay and Mohler, in: Hay et al. 1967 Genus Calcidiscus Kamptner 1950
E. huxleyi (Lohmann 1902) C. leptoporus (Murray and Blackman 1898)
Hay and Mohler, in Hay et al. 1967 Loeblich and Tappan 1978
E. coronata Martini 1993 C. macintyrei (Bukry and Bramlette 1969)

Loeblich and Tappan 1978
Genus Gephyrocapsa Kamptner 1943
G. caribbeanica Boudreaux and Hay 1967 Genus Coccolithus Schwarz 1894
G. lumina Bukry 1973 C. pelagicus (Wallich 1877) Schiller 1930
G. oceanica Kamptner 1943
G. margereli-muellerae group: Genus Helicosphaera Kamptner 1954
G. margereli Breheret 1978 H. carteri (Wallich 1877) Kamptner 1954
G. muellerae Breheret 1978 H. sellii Bukry and Bramlette 1969
Gephyrocapsa sp.V*
Gephyrocapsa spp. (small species) Genus Pontosphaera Lohmann 1902

Pontosphaera spp.
Genus Pseudoemiliania Gartner 1968
P. lacunosa (Kamptner 1963) Gartner 1969 Genus Rhabdosphaera Haeckel 1894

R. claviger Murray and Blackman 1898
Genus Reticulofenestra Hay, Mohler and Wade 1966
R. asanoi Sato and Takayama 1991 Genus Syracosphaera Lohmann 1902
R. minuta Roth 1970 S. pulchra Lohmann 1902
R. minutula (Gartner 1967) Haq and Berggren 1978 Syracosphaera spp.
R. perplexa (Burns 1975) Wise 1983
R. productella (Bukry 1975) Gallagher 1989