Protozoa - Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
Alternative combination: Pseudosaturniforma spinosa
Full reference: H. Kozur and H. Mostler. 1990. Saturnaliacea Deflandre and some other stratigraphically important Radiolaria from the Hettangian of Lenggries/Isar (Bavaria, Northern Calcareous Alps). Geologisch-Paläontologische Mitteilungen Innsbruck 17:179-248
Belongs to Praeacanthocircus according to H. Kozur and H. Mostler 1990
See also Danelian 2010
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Its type locality is Tingo, Cerro Negro, sample 5484, which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian deep-water siltstone/limestone in the Aramachay Formation of Peru
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution: found only at Gümüslü, sample 1662D
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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