Bacillariophyceae - Coscinodiscales - Coscinodiscaceae
Full reference: C.G. Ehrenberg. 1839. Über die Bildung der Kreidefelsen und des Kreidemergels durch unsichtbare Organismen. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Physikalische Klasse 1839:59-147
Parent taxon: Coscinodiscaceae according to F.T. Kützing 1844
See also Abbott and Ernissee 1983, Andrews 1976, Chrétiennot-Dinet et al. 1993, Ehrenberg 1839 and Lakhanpal et al. 1976
Sister taxa: Cestodiscus, Coscinodiscoideae, Craspedodiscus, Melosiroideae, Stellarima
Subtaxa: Coscinodiscus apiculatus Coscinodiscus asteromphalus Coscinodiscus curvatulus Coscinodiscus ellipticus Coscinodiscus excentricus Coscinodiscus gigas Coscinodiscus inclusus Coscinodiscus lineatus Coscinodiscus marginatus Coscinodiscus minor Coscinodiscus oculusiridis Coscinodiscus perforatus Coscinodiscus punctatus Coscinodiscus radiatus Coscinodiscus rothii Coscinodiscus subtilis Coscinodiscus vetustissimus
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (6 collections), North Pacific (25)
• Brunhes of North Pacific (2)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (33), North Pacific (522), South Pacific (6), Southern Ocean (37)
• C2 of North Pacific (9)
• Neodenticula koizumii of North Pacific (1)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (18)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Chile (1), North Pacific (4)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (8), Japan (2), North Pacific (154), Southern Ocean (34)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (2)
• Neodenticula kamtschatica of North Pacific (9)
• Miocene to Pliocene of North Pacific (3), Southern Ocean (1)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (28), Japan (1), Mexico (2), Morocco (1), North Pacific (129), Southern Ocean (96), United States (3: Maryland, North Carolina, Washington)
• Neogene of India (1)
• Oligocene of India (1), Southern Ocean (4)
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (9)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (11), Canada (4: Northwest Territories)
Total: 1168 collections including 1534 occurrences
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