Protozoa - Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
Parent taxon: Heliosaturnalinae according to P. De Wever et al. 2001
Sister taxa: Heliosaturnalis, Praehexasaturnalis, Pseudoheliodiscus, Stauracanthocircus
Subtaxa: Palaeosaturnalis blomei Palaeosaturnalis brevispinosus Palaeosaturnalis dumitricai Palaeosaturnalis edentatus Palaeosaturnalis fragilis Palaeosaturnalis haeckeli Palaeosaturnalis hugluensis Palaeosaturnalis latiannulatus Palaeosaturnalis lenggriesensis Palaeosaturnalis liassicus Palaeosaturnalis mocki Palaeosaturnalis parvispinosus Palaeosaturnalis prinevillensis Palaeosaturnalis raridenticulatus Palaeosaturnalis rectangularis Palaeosaturnalis schaafi Palaeosaturnalis subovalis Palaeosaturnalis triassicus
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Canada (20: British Columbia collections), China (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Japan (7), Mexico (7), the Philippines (4), Turkey (11), United States (1: Oregon)
• Triassic of Albania (1), China (1), Cyprus (3), Hungary (1), Malaysia (2), Oman (1), Thailand (3), Turkey (28)
Total: 94 collections including 180 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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