Rutilaria Harwood 1988 (diatom)

Bacillariophyceae - Centrales

Full reference: D. Harwood. 1988. Upper Cretaceous and lower Paleocene diatom and silicoflagellate biostratigraphy of Seymour Island, eastern Antarctic Peninsula. Geological Society of America, Memoir 169:55-129

Parent taxon: Centrales according to F. E. Round et al. 1990

See also Harwood 1988

Sister taxa: Auliscineae, Basilicostephanus, Chaetoceraceae, Cladogramma, Discineae, Eupodiscaceae, Eupodiscineae, Hemiauliineae, Lithodemiaceae, Sheshukovia, Strelnikovia, Triceratiineae

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at Seymour Island, SI-408 (Paleocene of Antarctica)

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