Polycystina - Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
Parent taxon: Entactinaria according to P. De Wever et al. 2001
See also Sharma and Takahashi 2007
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, Spongosaturnaloididae, Tetrentactiniidae, Thalassothamnidae, Triumbraculidae
Subtaxa: Axopruninae Heliosaturnalinae Hexasaturnalinae Liassosatumalis Mesosaturnalis Palaeosatumalis Praemesosaturnalis Saturnalinae Saturnalis
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Ecuador (2 collections)
• Paleocene of New Zealand (23)
• Cretaceous of Albania (2), Australia (1), Austria (8), Germany (4), Greece (3), India (1), Italy (92), New Zealand (4), North Pacific (1), Oman (27), the Philippines (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (2), Turkey (3), United States (13: California)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Austria (3), Germany (1), Italy (3), Mexico (1), Oman (3), the Russian Federation (1)
• Jurassic of Albania (1), Antarctica (13), Armenia (3), Austria (20), Canada (69: British Columbia), China (2), Costa Rica (1), Germany (4), Greece (6), Hungary (1), India (2), Indonesia (1), Italy (43), Japan (56), Malaysia (1), Mexico (22), New Zealand (1), Oman (18), the Philippines (4), Romania (8), the Russian Federation (4), Slovakia (11), Slovenia (1), Spain (9), Switzerland (1), Turkey (15), United States (26: California, Oregon)
• Triassic of Albania (3), Austria (1), Canada (46: British Columbia), China (2), Cyprus (11), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Japan (4), Malaysia (2), Mexico (16), New Zealand (1), Oman (1), the Philippines (2), the Russian Federation (2), Thailand (3), Turkey (56), United States (2: Alaska, Oregon)
Total: 698 collections including 1632 occurrences