Protozoa - Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
Synonym: Spongosaturnalis Campbell and Clark 1944
Parent taxon: Saturnalinae according to P. De Wever et al. 2001
See also Hull 1997 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Aurisaturnalis, Moebicircus, Praeacanthocircus, Pseudacanthocircus, Spinoellipsella, Spongosaturninus, Vitorfus
Subtaxa: Acanthocircus breviaculeatus Acanthocircus calvus Acanthocircus carinatus Acanthocircus dumitricai Acanthocircus echinocircus Acanthocircus euganeus Acanthocircus hueyi Acanthocircus italicus Acanthocircus minimus Acanthocircus moctezumaensis Acanthocircus preclarus Acanthocircus rotundus Acanthocircus simplex Acanthocircus spelae Acanthocircus spinifer Acanthocircus suboblongus Acanthocircus trizonalis Acanthocircus tympanum Acanthocircus variabilis Acanthocircus venetus Acanthocircus yaoi
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of New Zealand (11 collections)
• Cretaceous of Albania (1), Australia (1), Austria (5), Germany (4), Greece (3), India (1), Italy (90), New Zealand (2), Oman (11), the Philippines (1), Poland (1), Slovakia (2), United States (11: California)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Austria (2), Germany (1), Italy (3), Mexico (1), Oman (2)
• Jurassic of Albania (1), Antarctica (13), Armenia (1), Austria (15), Germany (3), Greece (1), India (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (31), Japan (10), Malaysia (1), Mexico (9), Oman (1), the Philippines (4), Slovakia (11), Spain (8), Turkey (1), United States (22: California, Oregon)
• Triassic of Albania (2), Mexico (4), New Zealand (1), the Philippines (2), Turkey (1), United States (1: Oregon)
Total: 298 collections including 525 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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