Polycystina - Entactinaria - Palaeoscenidiidae
Synonym: Parentactiniidae Kozur and Mostler 1981
Parent taxon: Entactinaria according to P. Noble et al. 2017
See also De Wever et al. 2001, Noble and Maletz 2000, Takahashi and Miyake 2014 and Wang et al. 2003
Sister taxa: Braginella, Centrocubidae, Cyclocarpus, Ellisus, Entactiniidae, Eptingiidae, Haplentactiniidae, Helioentactinia, Heptacladidae, Hexalonchidae, Hexastylidae, Hindeosphaeridae, Hollandocachoniidae, Inaniguttidae, Isometractiniidae, Kahlerosphaera, Kungalariidae, Multiarcusellidae, Odoghertitidae, Palaeolithocycliidae, Paleoxiphosphaera, Pentactinocarpidae, Polyentactiniidae, Protoentactiniacea, Proventocitidae, Pylentonemidae, Quinquecapsulariidae, Radium, Rhizosphaeridae, Saturnalidae, Spongosaturnaloididae, Tetrentactiniidae, Thalassothamnidae, Triumbraculidae
Subtaxa: Deflantrica Fukujius Holdsworthum Insolitignum Pactarentinia Palaeodecaradium Palaeoephippium Palaeopyramidium Palaeoscenidium Palaeothalomnus Parentactinia Praesaturnalis Procyrtis Tlecerina
Type: Palaeoscenidium
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Canada (10: British Columbia collections)
• Triassic of China (3), Indonesia (4), Japan (52), New Zealand (2), Oman (1), the Philippines (3), Slovenia (7), Thailand (19), United States (1: Oregon), Vietnam (2)
• Carboniferous of Germany (1)
• Devonian of Australia (2), China (2), United States (3: Ohio)
• Silurian of Sweden (1)
• Ordovician of United States (1: Nevada)
Total: 114 collections including 161 occurrences