Bacillariophyceae - Thalassiosirales - Thalassiosiraceae
Full reference: M. V. Lebour. 1930. The planktonic diatoms of northern seas. 116
Parent taxon: Thalassiosirales according to Z. I. Glezer and V. I. Makarova 1986
See also Round et al. 1990
Sister taxa: Lauderiaceae, Skeletonemaceae
Subtaxa: Bacterosira Mesodictyon Planktoniella Porosira Shionodiscus Sinerima Thalassiosira
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (17 collections), North Pacific (37), South Atlantic (1), South Pacific (1)
• Neodenticula seminae of North Pacific (3)
• Brunhes of North Pacific (2)
• Quaternary of Arctic Ocean (1), Indian Ocean (113), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (930), South Atlantic (18), South Pacific (26), Southern Ocean (116)
• C2 of North Pacific (10)
• Neodenticula koizumii of North Pacific (1)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (32), South Atlantic (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of North Pacific (15), Southern Ocean (8)
• Pliocene of Chile (1), Indian Ocean (21), Japan (3), North Pacific (180), South Atlantic (2), South Pacific (3), Southern Ocean (95)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (11), South Atlantic (2)
• Neodenticula kamtschatica of North Pacific (9)
• Miocene to Pliocene of North Pacific (9), Southern Ocean (5)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (31), Japan (2), Morocco (1), North Pacific (175), South Atlantic (9), Southern Ocean (89), United States (4: Idaho, North Carolina)
• Oligocene of Southern Ocean (2)
Total: 1987 collections including 6435 occurrences