Spongosaturninus radius Dumitrica and Zügel 2008 (radiolarian)

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 kiesslingi, Spongosaturninus matsuokai, Spongosaturninus medioangustus, 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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