Protozoa - Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
Parent taxon: Entactinaria according to P. De Wever et al. 2001
See also Sharma and Takahashi 2007
Sister taxa: Aciferopylorum, Braginella, Centrocubidae, Cromyostylus, Cyclocarpus, Ellisus, Entactiniidae, Eptingiidae, Haplentactiniidae, Helioentactinia, Heptacladidae, Hexalonchidae, Hexastylidae, Hindeosphaeridae, Hollandocachoniidae, Inaniguttidae, Induropilarius, Isometractiniidae, Kahlerosphaera, Kungalariidae, Multiarcusellidae, Odoghertitidae, Palaeolithocycliidae, Palaeopentactinorbis, Palaeoscenidiidae, Paleoxiphosphaera, Pentactinocarpidae, Polyentactiniidae, Protoentactiniacea, Proventocitidae, Pylentonemidae, Quinquecapsulariidae, Radium, Rhizosphaeridae, Spongoentactinella, Spongosaturnaloididae, Staurolonchidium, Stylodiscus, Tetrentactiniidae, Thalassothamnidae, Triposphaera, Triumbraculidae
Subtaxa: Axopruninae Heliosaturnalinae Hexasaturnalinae Liassosatumalis Mesosaturnalis Palaeosatumalis Praemesosaturnalis Saturnalinae Saturnalis
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• NN21 of North Pacific (10 collections)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (1), Japan (3), North Pacific (259)
• C2 of North Pacific (5)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of North Pacific (2), South Pacific (1)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (2), North Pacific (85), South Pacific (3)
• Neodenticula kamtschatica of North Pacific (8)
• Miocene to Pliocene of North Pacific (2)
• Miocene of North Pacific (8)
• Oligocene of South Pacific (2)
• Eocene to Oligocene of South Pacific (2)
• Eocene of North Atlantic (7), South Pacific (14)
• Paleocene of New Zealand (23)
• Cretaceous of Albania (2), 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), South Pacific (1), Türkiye (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), Türkiye (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), Türkiye (56), United States (2: Alaska, Oregon)
Total: 1110 collections including 2045 occurrences