Protozoa - Entactinaria - Palaeoscenidiidae
Synonym: Parentactiniidae Kozur and Mostler 1981
Parent taxon: Entactinaria according to P. Noble et al. 2017
See also Aitchison 1993, De Wever et al. 2001, Noble and Maletz 2000, Takahashi and Miyake 2014 and Wang et al. 2003
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, Paleoxiphosphaera, Pentactinocarpidae, Polyentactiniidae, Protoentactiniacea, Proventocitidae, Pylentonemidae, Quinquecapsulariidae, Radium, Rhizosphaeridae, Saturnalidae, Spongoentactinella, Spongosaturnaloididae, Staurolonchidium, Stylodiscus, Tetrentactiniidae, Thalassothamnidae, Triposphaera, Triumbraculidae
Subtaxa: Deflantrica Fukujius Holdsworthum Insolitignum Pactarentinia Palaeodecaradium Palaeoephippium Palaeopyramidium Palaeoscenidium Palaeothalomnus Parentactinia Praesaturnalis Procyrtis Tlecerina
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Canada (10: British Columbia collections)
• Triassic of China (3), Indonesia (4), Japan (52), New Zealand (2), Oman (1), the Philippines (3), Slovenia (7), Thailand (19), United States (1: Oregon), Vietnam (2)
• Carboniferous of Germany (1)
• Devonian of Australia (4), China (2), United States (3: Ohio)
• Silurian of Sweden (1)
• Ordovician of United States (1: Nevada)
Total: 116 collections including 173 occurrences