Protozoa - Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
Alternative combinations: Hexasaturnalis decilobum, Kozurastrum decilobum
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 Pseudoheliodiscus according to K. Y. Yeh and Y. N. Cheng 1996
See also Carter 1993 and Danelian 2010
Sister taxa: Pseudoheliodiscus alpinus, Pseudoheliodiscus bifidus, Pseudoheliodiscus concordis, Pseudoheliodiscus finchi, Pseudoheliodiscus hettangicus, Pseudoheliodiscus huxleyensis, Pseudoheliodiscus inaequispinosus, Pseudoheliodiscus massivus, Pseudoheliodiscus nevianii, Pseudoheliodiscus pamphyliensis, Pseudoheliodiscus poissoni, Pseudoheliodiscus primitivus, Pseudoheliodiscus radiosus, Pseudoheliodiscus robustospinosus, Pseudoheliodiscus rotundus, Pseudoheliodiscus rugosus, Pseudoheliodiscus viejoensis, Pseudoheliodiscus yaoi, Saturnosphaera shengi, Saturnosphaera zhangi
Type specimen: Its type locality is 88-CNA-KPA-R3 Kennecott Point, Graham Island, which is in a Sevatian basinal (siliciclastic) limestone/siltstone in the Sandilands Formation of Canada
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Canada (6: British Columbia collections), the Philippines (1)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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