Stephanopyxis Ehrenberg 1845 (diatom)

Bacillariophyceae - Melosirales - Stephanopyxidaceae

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: Stephanopyxidaceae according to V. A. Nikolaev 1984

See also Abbott and Ernissee 1983, Andrews 1976, Chrétiennot-Dinet et al. 1993 and Lakhanpal et al. 1976

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Stephanopyxis corona Stephanopyxis lineata Stephanopyxis simonseni Stephanopyxis turris

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• NN21 of Indian Ocean (2 collections), North Pacific (3)

• Neodenticula seminae of North Pacific (1)

• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (13), North Pacific (259), South Atlantic (1), South Pacific (5), Southern Ocean (79)

• C2 of North Pacific (10)

• Neodenticula koizumii of North Pacific (1)

• NN16 of Indian Ocean (3)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Southern Ocean (8)

• Pliocene of Chile (1), Indian Ocean (2), Japan (3), North Pacific (53), South Pacific (2), Southern Ocean (57)

• NN12 of Indian Ocean (1)

• Neodenticula kamtschatica of North Pacific (7)

• Miocene to Pliocene of North Pacific (1), Southern Ocean (5)

• Neogene of India (1)

• Miocene of Indian Ocean (1), Mexico (2), North Pacific (16), Southern Ocean (108), United States (3: Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia)

• Oligocene of Southern Ocean (37)

• Eocene of the Russian Federation (1), Southern Ocean (6), United States (1: California)

• Paleocene of Antarctica (17)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (21), Canada (60: Northwest Territories, Nunavut)

Total: 791 collections including 1316 occurrences

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