Family Skeletonemaceae Lebour 1930 (diatom)
Bacillariophyceae - Thalassiosirales - Skeletonemaceae
Full reference: M. V. Lebour. 1930. The planktonic diatoms of northern seas. 116
Parent taxon: Thalassiosirales according to F. E. Round et al. 1990
Sister taxa: Lauderiaceae, Thalassiosiraceae
Subtaxa: Detonula Skeletonema Skeletonemopsis
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of North Pacific (60 collections), Southern Ocean (1)
• Pliocene of North Pacific (1)
• Miocene of Southern Ocean (3)
• Oligocene of Southern Ocean (3)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (8)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (2)
Total: 78 collections including 82 occurrences