Protozoa - Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
Full reference: P. Dumitrica and P. Zügel. 2008. Early Tithonian Saturnalidae (Radiolaria) from the Solnhofen area (Southern Frankonian Alb, southern Germany). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 82(1):55-84
Belongs to Spongosaturninus according to P. Dumitrica and P. Zügel 2008
Sister taxa: Spongosaturninus bispinus, Spongosaturninus corpulentus, Spongosaturninus matsuokai, Spongosaturninus medioangustus, Spongosaturninus radius, Spongosaturninus tortuosus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Mue 22, Mülheim radiolarians, Solnhofen, which is in a Tithonian open shallow subtidal wackestone in the Mörnsheim Formation of Germany
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution: found only at Mue 22, Mülheim radiolarians, Solnhofen
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