Pseudoheliodiscus Kozur and Mostler 1972 (radiolarian)

Protozoa - Entactinaria - Saturnalidae

Synonym: Saturnosphaera Tikhomirova 1975

Parent taxon: Heliosaturnalinae according to P. De Wever et al. 2001

See also Hull 1997, O'Dogherty et al. 2009 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Heliosaturnalis, Palaeosaturnalis, Praehexasaturnalis, Stauracanthocircus

Subtaxa: Pseudoheliodiscus alpinus Pseudoheliodiscus bifidus Pseudoheliodiscus concordis Pseudoheliodiscus decilobum 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

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Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Canada (15: British Columbia collections), China (1), Germany (1), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Japan (4), Mexico (4), New Zealand (1), the Philippines (2), Slovenia (1), Turkey (2), United States (2: California, Oregon)

• Triassic of Canada (20: British Columbia), China (1), Greece (1), Mexico (12), New Zealand (1), the Philippines (2), the Russian Federation (1), Turkey (5), United States (1: Alaska)

Total: 79 collections including 130 occurrences

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