Bacillariophyceae - Coscinodiscales - Coscinodiscaceae
Full reference: F.T. Kützing. 1844. Die Kieselschaligen. Bacillarien oder Diatomeen. Nordhausen 152pp,3pls
Parent taxon: Coscinodiscales according to F. E. Round et al. 1990
See also Andrews 1976, Kützing 1844 and Patrick 1940
Sister taxa: Heliopeltaceae, Rocella, Rocellaceae
Subtaxa: Cestodiscus Coscinodiscoideae Coscinodiscus Craspedodiscus Melosiroideae Stellarima
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (6 collections), North Pacific (25)
• Brunhes of North Pacific (2)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (33), North Pacific (528), South Pacific (6), Southern Ocean (84)
• C2 of North Pacific (9)
• Neodenticula koizumii of North Pacific (1)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (18)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Chile (1), North Pacific (4), Southern Ocean (3)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (8), Japan (2), North Pacific (155), Southern Ocean (85)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (2)
• Neodenticula kamtschatica of North Pacific (9)
• Miocene to Pliocene of North Pacific (3), Southern Ocean (3)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (33), Japan (1), Mexico (2), Morocco (1), North Pacific (146), Southern Ocean (186), United States (3: Maryland, North Carolina, Washington)
• Neogene of India (1)
• NN1 of North Pacific (2)
• Oligocene of India (1), Southern Ocean (7)
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (9)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (11), Canada (45: Northwest Territories, Nunavut)
Total: 1436 collections including 2036 occurrences