Protozoa - Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
Parent taxon: Saturnalidae according to P. De Wever et al. 2001
Sister taxa: Axopruninae, Heliosaturnalinae, Liassosatumalis, Mesosaturnalis, Palaeosatumalis, Praemesosaturnalis, Saturnalinae, Saturnalis
Subtaxa: Dicerosaturnalis Eospongosaturninus Hexasaturnalis Octosaturnalis
Type: Hexasaturnalis
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Albania (1 collection), Austria (8), Germany (2), Italy (6), Oman (23), the Philippines (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Austria (3), Germany (1), Oman (3), the Russian Federation (1)
• Jurassic of Armenia (2), Austria (16), Canada (16: British Columbia), China (1), Costa Rica (1), Greece (4), India (2), Italy (35), Japan (42), Mexico (13), Oman (18), Romania (8), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (5), Switzerland (1), United States (4: California)
• Triassic of Austria (1), Canada (23: British Columbia), Mexico (5), the Philippines (1), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 251 collections including 341 occurrences