†family Tetrentactiniidae Kozur and Mostler 1979 (radiolarian)

Radiolaria - Entactinaria - Tetrentactiniidae

Parent taxon: Entactinaria according to P. Noble et al. 2017

See also Takahashi and Miyake 2014

Sister taxa: Braginella, Centrocubidae, Cyclocarpus, Ellisus, Entactiniidae, Eptingiidae, Haplentactiniidae, Helioentactinia, Heptacladidae, Hexalonchidae, Hexastylidae, Hindeosphaeridae, Hollandocachoniidae, Inaniguttidae, Isometractiniidae, Kahlerosphaera, Kungalariidae, Multiarcusellidae, Odoghertitidae, Palaeolithocycliidae, Palaeoscenidiidae, Paleoxiphosphaera, Pentactinocarpidae, Polyentactiniidae, Protoentactiniacea, Proventocitidae, Pylentonemidae, Quinquecapsulariidae, Radium, Rhizosphaeridae, Saturnalidae, Spongosaturnaloididae, Thalassothamnidae, Triumbraculidae

Subtaxa: Tetrentactiniini

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Type: Tetrentactinia

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore

Distribution:

• Triassic of New Zealand (3 collections), Vietnam (3)

• Permian of China (11), Japan (2), Thailand (1)

• Carboniferous of Germany (2), Thailand (4), United States (1: Alaska)

• Devonian of China (3), United States (3: Ohio)

Total: 33 collections including 69 occurrences

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