Bacillariophyceae - Centrales - Eupodiscaceae
Parent taxon: Eupodiscaceae according to M. -J. Chrétiennot-Dinet et al. 1993
See also Abbott and Ernissee 1983, Andrews 1976, Lakhanpal et al. 1976 and Lemmermann 1899
Sister taxa: Eupodiscoideae, Eupodiscus
Subtaxa: Triceratium condecorum
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (4 collections), North Pacific (1), South Atlantic (1), South Pacific (1)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (10), North Pacific (4), South Pacific (1), Southern Ocean (2)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (4)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of North Pacific (5)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (5), North Pacific (12), Southern Ocean (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of North Pacific (4)
• Neogene of India (1)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (5), Mexico (1), North Pacific (85), Southern Ocean (16), United States (2: Maryland, North Carolina)
• Oligocene of India (1), Southern Ocean (3)
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (5)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (13)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (15), Canada (13: Northwest Territories, Nunavut)
Total: 217 collections including 295 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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