Polycystina - Entactinaria - Entactiniidae
Synonyms: Belowea, Stolbergia Kozur and Mostler 1989, Thecentactinia Nazarov 1975
Parent taxon: Entactiniidae according to P. Noble et al. 2017
See also Aitchison et al. 1999, De Wever et al. 2001, Feng et al. 2004, Sepkoski 2002 and Takahashi and Miyake 2014
Sister taxa: Afanasievella, Apophysiactinia, Astroentactiniinae, Bientactinosphaerinae, Borisella, Callela, Cancellosphaera, Costaentactinia, Cubaxonium, Duodecimentactinia, Entactiniinae, Fenestrula, Gracilentactinia, Hegleria, Holdisphaera, Involutentactinia, Kashiwara, Klaengspongus, Lententactinia, Magnentactinia, Magnisphaera, Megaporus, Microporosa, Moskovistella, Multientactinia, Munzuwonella, Oruatemanua, Paracopicyntra, Paratriposphaera, Perforentactinia, Plenoentactinia, Plenosphaera, Pluristratoentactinia, Polyedroentactinia, Provisocyntra, Radiobisphaera, Retentactinia, Retisphaera, Shinkaiera, Sinosphaera, Spongentactinia, Stigmosphaerostylus, Stygmosphaerostylus, Tardentactinia, Trilonche, Uberinterna, Wuyia
Subtaxa: Entactinosphaera amphilaphes Entactinosphaera aubouini Entactinosphaera cimelia Entactinosphaera esostrongyla Entactinosphaera palimbola Entactinosphaera simoni Entactinosphaera spinulata Entactinosphaera triassica Entactinosphaera zapfei
Type: Entactinosphaera esostrongyla
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Austria (1 collection), Canada (34: British Columbia), China (8), Cyprus (1), Hungary (1), Japan (13), New Zealand (8), Thailand (10), Vietnam (1)
• Leonard of United States (2: Oregon)
• Permian of China (15), Japan (7), Malaysia (2), Thailand (12), United States (2: Oregon)
• Carboniferous of Germany (1), Thailand (3), United States (2: Alaska)
• Devonian of United States (3: Ohio)
• Llandeilo of Kazakhstan (1)
Total: 127 collections including 195 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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