''Emiliania'' is a global
coccolithophorid genus.
The genus name of ''Emiliania'' is in honour of
Cesare Emiliani
Cesare Emiliani (8 December 1922 – 20 July 1995) was an Italian-American scientist, geologist, micropaleontologist, and founder of paleoceanography, developing the timescale of marine isotope stages, which despite modifications remains in u ...
(1922–1995), who was an Italian-American scientist, geologist,
micropaleontologist, and founder of
paleoceanography, developing the timescale of
marine isotope stages.
The genus was
circumscribed
In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter and its radius is called the circumradius.
Not every po ...
by
Hanspeter Mohler and
William Winn Hay in Trans. Gulf Coast Ass. Geol. Soc. Vol.17 on page 447 in 1967.
It includes the species ''
Emiliania huxleyi''.
References
Haptophyte genera
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