Protozoa - Entactinaria - Entactiniidae
Full reference: E. Carter. 1993. Biochronology and paleontology of uppermost Triassic (Rhaetian) radiolarians, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. Memoires de Geologie 11:1-175
Belongs to Entactinosphaera according to E. Carter 1993
Sister taxa: Entactinosphaera aculeata, Entactinosphaera aculeatissima, Entactinosphaera aenigma, Entactinosphaera aitpaiensis, Entactinosphaera aksakensis, Entactinosphaera almae, Entactinosphaera altasulcata, Entactinosphaera assidera, Entactinosphaera aubouini, Entactinosphaera australis, Entactinosphaera baragensis, Entactinosphaera bellula, Entactinosphaera brevihebes, Entactinosphaera brevispinosa, Entactinosphaera calthrata, Entactinosphaera carssispira, Entactinosphaera cimelia, Entactinosphaera conglobata, Entactinosphaera crassiclathrata, Entactinosphaera crassispinosa, Entactinosphaera diplostraca, Entactinosphaera dystactotata, Entactinosphaera egindyensis, Entactinosphaera elegans, Entactinosphaera erebenna, Entactinosphaera esostrongyla, Entactinosphaera euthlasta, Entactinosphaera excurrens, Entactinosphaera explicata, Entactinosphaera foremanae, Entactinosphaera fredericki, Entactinosphaera gengmaensis, Entactinosphaera grandis, Entactinosphaera guangxiensis, Entactinosphaera hapala, Entactinosphaera hirta, Entactinosphaera hystricosa, Entactinosphaera inconstans, Entactinosphaera inpercepta, Entactinosphaera inusitata, Entactinosphaera liquidambarfructa, Entactinosphaera menneri, Entactinosphaera neocimelia, Entactinosphaera octospina, Entactinosphaera orientalis, Entactinosphaera palimbola, Entactinosphaera paracimelia, Entactinosphaera polyacanthina, Entactinosphaera pseudocimelia, Entactinosphaera pulcherima, Entactinosphaera riedeli, Entactinosphaera ruesti, Entactinosphaera simoni, Entactinosphaera spinulata, Entactinosphaera strangulata, Entactinosphaera symphypora, Entactinosphaera trendalli, Entactinosphaera tretactinia, Entactinosphaera triassica, Entactinosphaera unimana, Entactinosphaera variacanthina, Entactinosphaera verrucula, Entactinosphaera wuhanensis, Entactinosphaera zapfei, Thecentactinia indeterminata, Belowea hexaculeata, Belowea crassitesta, Belowea tenuistesta
Type specimen: Its type locality is 87-CNA-SKUD-7 Kunga Island, which is in a Rhaetian basinal (siliciclastic) limestone/siltstone in the Sandilands Formation of Canada
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Canada (28: British Columbia collections)
Total: 28 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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