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Brightwellia


Classification: diatoms -> Coscinodiscanae  -> Brightwellia
Sister taxa: Actinocyclus, Actinoptychus, Arachnoidiscus, Araniscus, Asterolampra, Asteromphalus, Aulacodiscus, Aulacoseira, Azpeitia, Azpeitiopsis, Benetorus, Bergonia, Blochia, Brightwellia, Cestodiscus, Coscinodiscus, Craspedodiscus, Distephanosira, Ellerbeckia, Ethmodiscus, Glorioptychus, Hemidiscus, Hyalodiscus, Hyalopoda, Lepidodiscus, Melosira, Nikolaevia, Paralia, Podosira> >>
Daughter taxa (time control age-window is: 0-800Ma)
Brightwellia coronata

neptune records: 1
Brightwellia elaborata

neptune records: 21
Brightwellia hyperborea

neptune records: 39
Brightwellia imperfecta

neptune records: 0
Brightwellia pulchra

neptune records: 0
Brightwellia sp.

neptune records: 4
Brightwellia spiralis

neptune records: 14
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Taxonomy

Citation: Brightwellia J. Ralfs in A. Pritchard, 1861
Taxonomic rank: genus

Occurrence data:

Graphs of recorded diversity (average number of species per sample) of the taxa from the Neptune database. Colour of bars indicates the number of samples in the timebin - solid colour >+50 samples, transparent <50. For more explanation see page on the Neptune database. Parent: Coscinodiscanae 

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References:

Missing or ambiguous references: Pritchard 1861;


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Brightwellia compiled by the mikrotax project team viewed: 12-2-2026

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