Bacillariophyceae - Rhaphoneidales - Rhaphoneidaceae
Full reference: A. Forti. 1912. Contribuzioni diatomologiche. XII. Metodo di classificazione delle Bacillariee Immobili fondato sull'affinità morfologica dei frustoli ed in relazione con I'evoluzione dell'auxospora. Atti Reale Ist. Veneto Sci. Lett. Arti 71(2):679-731
Parent taxon: Rhaphoneidales according to F. E. Round et al. 1990
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Delphineis Diplomenora Rhaphoneis Rhomboneis Rosaforma Sceptroneis
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (2 collections), North Pacific (1)
• Neodenticula seminae of North Pacific (2)
• Brunhes of North Pacific (1)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (5), North Pacific (236), South Pacific (1), Southern Ocean (1)
• C2 of North Pacific (1)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of North Pacific (2)
• Pliocene of Japan (2), North Pacific (16), Southern Ocean (1)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (1)
• Miocene of Chile (1), Indian Ocean (8), North Pacific (5), Southern Ocean (3), United States (4: North Carolina, Virginia)
• NN1 of North Pacific (2)
• Oligocene of India (1), Southern Ocean (3)
• Eocene of Mexico (3), North Atlantic (1)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (7)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (6), Canada (30: Northwest Territories)
Total: 347 collections including 444 occurrences