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
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Chile (1 collection), Japan (3)
• Neogene of India (1)
• Miocene of Mexico (1), United States (3: Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: California)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (17)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (21), Canada (60: Northwest Territories, Nunavut)
Total: 109 collections including 497 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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