Radiolaria - Nassellaria - Sethocapsidae

Alternative combination: Stichocapsa elegans

Full reference: A. Matsuoka. 1991. Early Jurassic Radiolarians from the Nanjo Massif in the Mino Terrane, central Japan. Part 1. Tricolocapsa, Stichocapsa, and Minocapsa, n. gen. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 161:720-738

Belongs to Plicaforacapsa according to S. Gorican et al. 2006

Sister taxon: Plicaforacapsa catenarum

Type specimen: NU MR 0025. Its type locality is Mino Terrane, Nanjo Massif, Imajo Unit, sample MNA-10, which is in a Toarcian basinal (siliceous) mudstone in Japan.

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore