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†family Pylentonemidae Deflandre 1963 (radiolarian)

Polycystina - Entactinaria - Pylentonemidae

Parent taxon: Entactinaria according to P. Noble et al. 2017

See also De Wever et al. 2001 and Feng et al. 2004

Sister taxa: Braginella, Centrocubidae, Cyclocarpus, Ellisus, Entactiniidae, Eptingiidae, Haplentactiniidae, Helioentactinia, Heptacladidae, Hexalonchidae, Hexastylidae, Hindeosphaeridae, Hollandocachoniidae, Inaniguttidae, Isometractiniidae, Kahlerosphaera, Kungalariidae, Multiarcusellidae, Odoghertitidae, Palaeolithocycliidae, Palaeoscenidiidae, Paleoxiphosphaera, Pentactinocarpidae, Polyentactiniidae, Protoentactiniacea, Proventocitidae, Quinquecapsulariidae, Radium, Rhizosphaeridae, Saturnalidae, Spongosaturnaloididae, Tetrentactiniidae, Thalassothamnidae, Triumbraculidae

Subtaxa: Polyentactinia Pylentonema Quadrapesus

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Type: Pylentonema

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore

Distribution:

• Triassic of China (1 collection), Japan (10), Thailand (5)

• Permian of China (1), the Russian Federation (1)

• Carboniferous of Germany (3), Thailand (4), United States (1: Alaska)

• Devonian of China (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (3: Ohio)

Total: 31 collections including 44 occurrences

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