Family Rhopalodiaceae Topachevsky and Oksiyuk 1960 (diatom)
Bacillariophyceae - Rhopalodiales - Rhopalodiaceae
Full reference: O. V. Topachevsky and O. P. Oksiyuk. 1960. Diatomovi vodorosti-Bacillariophyta (Diatomeae). Vyznachnyk prisnovodnykh vodorostey Ukrayinskoyi RSR. Vyp. 11 (Bacillariophyta. Manual of freshwater algae of Ukraine. Issue 11.). 411
Parent taxon: Rhopalodiales according to F. E. Round et al. 1990
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Epithemia Rhopalodia Yoshidaia
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of India (1 collection), Kenya (2), North Atlantic (1), Sweden (1)
• Blancan of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1)
• Pliocene of Armenia (1)
Total: 8 collections including 13 occurrences