Bacillariophyceae - Coscinodiscales - Heliopeltaceae
Parent taxon: Heliopeltaceae according to H. L. Smith 1872
See also Abbott and Ernissee 1983, Andrews 1976, Ehrenberg 1843, Fourtanier and Kociolek 1999 and Lakhanpal et al. 1976
Sister taxon: Auliscus
Subtaxa: Actinoptychus marylandicus Actinoptychus senarius Actinoptychus virginicus Actinoptychus vulgaris
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Chile (1 collection), Japan (2)
• Neogene of India (1)
• Miocene of Chile (1), Mexico (2), United States (5: Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Oligocene of India (1)
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (8)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (5), Canada (41: Northwest Territories, Nunavut)
Total: 68 collections including 105 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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