Radiolaria - Entactinaria - Pentactinocarpidae
Parent taxon: Entactinaria according to O. Takahashi and Y. Miyake 2014
See also Tekin 2002
Sister taxa: Braginella, Centrocubidae, Cyclocarpus, Ellisus, Entactiniidae, Eptingiidae, Haplentactiniidae, Helioentactinia, Heptacladidae, Hexalonchidae, Hexastylidae, Hindeosphaeridae, Hollandocachoniidae, Inaniguttidae, Isometractiniidae, Kahlerosphaera, Kungalariidae, Multiarcusellidae, Odoghertitidae, Palaeolithocycliidae, Palaeoscenidiidae, Paleoxiphosphaera, Polyentactiniidae, Protoentactiniacea, Proventocitidae, Pylentonemidae, Quinquecapsulariidae, Radium, Rhizosphaeridae, Saturnalidae, Spongosaturnaloididae, Tetrentactiniidae, Thalassothamnidae, Triumbraculidae
Subtaxa: Busuanga Lobactinocapsa Pentactinocapsa Pentactinocarpus Pentactinorbis
Type: Pentactinocarpus
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Austria (1 collection), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Canada (27: British Columbia), China (1), Cyprus (10), Italy (1), Japan (2), Malaysia (7), Oman (2), the Philippines (3), Slovenia (9), Turkey (23), Vietnam (2)
Total: 89 collections including 121 occurrences