Doodle showing the diatom Plagiogramma Fossil Diatom Atlas
All updates:
01 Mar 2025:

Glad to announce that the Atlas now has a responsive user interface and works well with mobile phones and tablets. Further improvements on the way!

26 Feb 2025:

The Atlas has a new user interface and a basic search functionality, to be expanded soon! A mobile-device friendly display is also underway.

18 Feb 2025:

After a short break and a number of days with intermittent availability (apologies for that!), the Atlas is back online. New functionalities, new photos, and further tweaks to the user interface coming soon. Thanks for stopping by!

15 Jan 2025:

New photos, including Sictodiscus novaezealandie from Oamaru and Hemiaulus kondai from the Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 275 in the South Pacific.

22 Apr 2024:

Four new photos added: Actinodiscus corolla, Rattrayella antiqua, Rhomboneis shtapovii, and Rosaforma paillesiae. The Atlas also includes a new locality, Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 275.

21 Apr 2024:

Six new photos added, including three new species: Actinoptychus wittianus, Auliscus actinoptychoides, and the extremely rare Trilamina tripes.

19 Apr 2024:

Fossil Diatom Atlas is one year old!

11 Feb 2024:

A small update to the Atlas, featuring another photo of Eupodiscus radiatus Bailey

19 Oct 2023:

New entry in the Fossil Diatom Atlas: two photos of Rylandsia biradiata Greville

03 Sep 2023:

Fossil Diatom Atlas features 200 photos!

25 Apr 2023:

Fossil Diatom Atlas has just reached 100 photos!