Bacillariophyceae - Coscinodiscales - Coscinodiscaceae
Full reference: G.R. Hasle and P.A. Sims. 1986. The diatom genera Stellarima and Symbolophora with comment on the genus Actinoptychus. British Phycological Journal 21(1):97-114
Parent taxon: Coscinodiscaceae according to G.R. Hasle and P.A. Sims 1986
See also Round et al. 1990
Sister taxa: Cestodiscus, Coscinodiscoideae, Coscinodiscus, Craspedodiscus, Melosiroideae
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of North Pacific (21 collections), Southern Ocean (76)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Southern Ocean (3)
• Pliocene of North Pacific (4), Southern Ocean (70)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Southern Ocean (2)
• Miocene of Southern Ocean (118)
• Oligocene of Southern Ocean (1)
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (2)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Canada (44: Northwest Territories, Nunavut)
Total: 343 collections including 401 occurrences
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