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Skeletonema

Bacillariophyceae - Thalassiosirales - Skeletonemaceae

Taxonomy
Skeletonema was named by Greville (1865). It is extant.

It was assigned to Skeletonemaceae by Lebour (1930); and to Thalassiosiraceae by Chrétiennot-Dinet et al. (1993).

Species lacking formal opinion data
S. penicillis, S. polychaetum, S. subantarctica

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Skeletonema Greville p. 43
1930Skeletonema Lebour p. 70
1993Skeletonema Chrétiennot-Dinet et al. p. 163

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomProtista
phylumOchrophyta
classBacillariophyceaeHaeckel 1878
RankNameAuthor
orderThalassiosirales
familySkeletonemaceae
genusSkeletonema

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Skeletonema Greville 1865
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: silicac
Environment: marine, brackish, freshwaterc
Diet: "photoautotroph"c
Created: 2008-03-19 02:48:18
Modified: 2008-03-19 04:48:18
Source: c = class
Reference: Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Campanian to the top of the Paleocene or 83.60000 to 56.00000 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Campanian83.6 - 72.2Antarctica S. polychaetum (57573)
Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0Antarctica S. polychaetum (57556)
Paleocene66.0 - 56.0Antarctica S. penicillis (57538) S. penicillis, S. polychaetum (57540) S. polychaetum (57537 57543 57545 57547) S. polychaetum, S. sp. A., S. subantarctica (57542) S. sp. A. (57546)