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Cymatosira
| Description | Cymatosira is a genus of diatoms in the family Cymatosiraceae. It is the type genus of its family. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymatosira, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||
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| Source Data |
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| Rank | genus | |||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Chromista : Ochrophyta : Bacillariophyceae : Cymatosirales : Cymatosiraceae : Cymatosira | |||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Bacillariophyta : Cymatosira | |||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||
| Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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| Scientific Name | Cymatosira A.Grunow, 1862 | |||||||||||||||
| Name Published In | Grunow, A. (1862). Die österreichischen Diatomaceen nebst Anschluss einiger neuen Arten von andern Lokalitäten und einer kritischen Uebersicht der bisher bekannten Gattungen und Arten. Erste Folge. Epithemieae, Meridioneae, Diatomeae, Entopyleae, Surirelleae, Amphipleureae. Zweite Folge. Familie Nitzschieae. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 12: 315-472, 545-588, 7 pls. | |||||||||||||||
| Opinions (PBDB) |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 23.0 - 13.8 Ma Miocene | |||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | W. H. Abbott and J. J. Ernissee. 1983. Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of a diatomaceous clay unit in the Miocene Pungo River Formation of Beaufort County, North Carolina. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 53:287-353 | |||||||||||||||
| Common Name(s) | キマトシーラ | |||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymatosira |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Cymatosira acremonica species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cymatosira adaroi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cymatosira andersonii species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cymatosira atlantica species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cymatosira belgica species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cymatosira biharensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cymatosira capensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cymatosira compacta species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cymatosira cornuta species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cymatosira coronata species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cymatosira curvata species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cymatosira debyi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cymatosira elliptica species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cymatosira fossilis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cymatosira gibberula species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cymatosira japonica species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cymatosira lorenziana species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cymatosira magna species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cymatosira minutissima species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cymatosira miocaenica species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cymatosira praecompacta species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cymatosira robusta species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Cymatosira savtchenkoi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1862 | Cymatosira Grunow |
| 1983 | Cymatosira Abbott and Ernissee p. 299 |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
