Bacillariophyceae - Melosirales - Hyalodiscaceae
Full reference: C.G. Ehrenberg. 1845. Neue Untersuchungen über das kleinste Leben als geologisches Moment. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1845:53-87
Parent taxon: Hyalodiscaceae according to F. E. Round et al. 1990
See also Abbott and Ernissee 1983, Andrews 1976 and Chrétiennot-Dinet et al. 1993
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Hyalodiscus laevis
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Japan (2 collections)
• Miocene of United States (2: Maryland, North Carolina)
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (2)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
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