Protozoa - Entactinaria - Pentactinocarpidae
Synonyms: Oertlisphaera Kozur and Mostler 1979, Praedruppatractylis Kozur and Mostler 1979
Parent taxon: Pentactinocarpidae according to O. Takahashi and Y. Miyake 2014
See also De Wever et al. 2001 and Tekin 2002
Sister taxa: Busuanga, Lobactinocapsa, Pentactinocapsa, Pentactinorbis
Subtaxa: Pentactinocarpus acanthicus Pentactinocarpus fusiformis Pentactinocarpus magnus Pentactinocarpus sevaticus Pentactinocarpus tetracanthus
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Austria (1 collection), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Canada (27: British Columbia), Cyprus (10), Italy (1), Japan (2), Oman (1), the Philippines (3), the Russian Federation (2), Slovenia (7), Turkey (23), Vietnam (2)
Total: 80 collections including 95 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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