Protozoa - Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
Alternative spelling: Stauroacanthocircus
Parent taxon: Heliosaturnalinae according to P. De Wever et al. 2001
See also Kiessling 2005, Tekin 2002 and Yeh and Cheng 1998
Sister taxa: Heliosaturnalis, Palaeosaturnalis, Praehexasaturnalis, Pseudoheliodiscus
Subtaxa: Stauracanthocircus asymmetricus Stauracanthocircus circularis Stauracanthocircus kayai Stauracanthocircus nadanhadaensis Stauracanthocircus pessagnoi Stauracanthocircus poetschensis Stauracanthocircus quadratus Stauracanthocircus ruesti Stauracanthocircus transitus Stauracanthocircus triangulospinosus
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of China (1 collection), Germany (1), Hungary (1), the Philippines (2), Turkey (5)
• Triassic of Austria (1), Turkey (7)
Total: 18 collections including 39 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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