Radiolaria - Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
Full reference: U. K. Tekin. 1999. Biostratigraphy and Systematics of late Middle to Late Triassic Radiolarians from the Taurus Mountains and Ankara Region, Turkey. Geologisch-Paläontologische Mitteilungen Innsbruck 5:1-296
Belongs to Palaeosaturnalis according to Tekin 1999
Sister taxa: Palaeosaturnalis blomei, Palaeosaturnalis brevispinosus, Palaeosaturnalis dumitricai, Palaeosaturnalis edentatus, Palaeosaturnalis fragilis, Palaeosaturnalis haeckeli, Palaeosaturnalis latiannulatus, Palaeosaturnalis lenggriesensis, Palaeosaturnalis liassicus, Palaeosaturnalis mocki, Palaeosaturnalis parvispinosus, Palaeosaturnalis prinevillensis, Palaeosaturnalis raridenticulatus, Palaeosaturnalis rectangularis, Palaeosaturnalis schaafi, Palaeosaturnalis subovalis, Palaeosaturnalis triassicus, Liassosaturnalis parvus, Liassosaturnalis undulatus
Type specimen: Pl. 16, fig. 7. Its type locality is 96-UKT-707, Haciyunuslar Measured Section, Huglu Unit, Beysehir-Hoyran Nappe, which is in a Carnian basinal (carbonate) limestone in Turkey.
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore