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 U. K. Tekin 1999

Sister taxa: Palaeosaturnalis blomei, Palaeosaturnalis brevispinosus, Palaeosaturnalis edentatus, Palaeosaturnalis fragilis, Palaeosaturnalis haeckeli, Palaeosaturnalis hugluensis, 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. 4.. Its type locality is 96-UKT-666/98-UKT-59, Yaylakuzdere measured section II, Alakircay Nappe, which is in a Lacian basinal (carbonate) limestone in the Gokdere Formation of Turkey.

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore