Bacillariophyceae - Melosirales - Stephanopyxidaceae
Full reference: V. A. Nikolaev. 1984. On the importance of the areola structure for the taxonomy of diatoms (Bacillariophyta). Bot. Zh 69:1040-1046
Parent taxon: Melosirales according to F. E. Round et al. 1990
Sister taxa: Endictyaceae, Hyalodiscaceae, Melosiraceae, Trochosiraceae
Subtaxa: Stephanopyxis
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (2 collections), North Pacific (3)
• Neodenticula seminae of North Pacific (1)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (13), North Pacific (259), South Atlantic (1), South Pacific (5), Southern Ocean (79)
• C2 of North Pacific (10)
• Neodenticula koizumii of North Pacific (1)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Southern Ocean (8)
• Pliocene of Chile (1), Indian Ocean (2), Japan (3), North Pacific (53), South Pacific (2), Southern Ocean (57)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (1)
• Neodenticula kamtschatica of North Pacific (7)
• Miocene to Pliocene of North Pacific (1), Southern Ocean (5)
• Neogene of India (1)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (1), Mexico (2), North Pacific (16), Southern Ocean (108), United States (3: Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Oligocene of Southern Ocean (37)
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (1), Southern Ocean (6), United States (1: California)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (17)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (21), Canada (60: Northwest Territories, Nunavut)
Total: 791 collections including 1316 occurrences