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†family Hexastylidae Haeckel 1881 (radiolarian)

Polycystina - Entactinaria - Hexastylidae

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

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

Subtaxa: Centracontium Centrolonche Hexastylus Stigmosphaera Stigmosphaerusa Stigmostylus

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Type: Hexastylus

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Austria (1 collection), Oman (3), the Philippines (1)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Austria (1), Germany (1)

• Jurassic of Antarctica (9), Austria (2), Italy (1), Japan (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (1)

• Triassic of Austria (1)

Total: 23 collections including 30 occurrences

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