PSEUDOAULOPHACOIDEA Riedel, 1967 sensu De Wever et al. (2001)

Suzuki, Noritoshi, Caulet, Jean-Pierre & Dumitrica, Paulian, 2021, A new integrated morpho- and molecular systematic classification of Cenozoic radiolarians (Class Polycystinea) - suprageneric taxonomy and logical nomenclatorial acts, Geodiversitas 43 (15), pp. 405-573 : 455

Superfamily PSEUDOAULOPHACOIDEA Riedel, 1967 sensu De Wever et al. (2001)

Pseudoaulophacidae Riedel, 1967a: 148 ; 1967b: 295;1971: 654-655.

Pseudoaulophacilae – Pessagno 1971a: 19 [as a subsuperfamily]; 1972: 273, 296 [as a subsuperfamily]; 1973: 50, 56 [as a subsuperfamily]; 1976: 26 [as a subsuperfamily]; 1977b: 930-931 [as a subsuperfamily]. — Blome 1984: 349, 352 [as a subsuperfamily].

Patulibracchiilae – De Wever et al. 2001: 138-139 ( sensu emend. ) [as a subsuperfamily].

Lobatiradiata [pars] Afanasieva & Amon in Afanasieva, Amon, Agarkov & Boltovskoy, 2005: S283 [as an order of Class Stauraxonaria]. — Afanasieva & Amon 2006: 125.

DIAGNOSIS. — Pseudoaulophacoidea characterized by a flat, lenticular, disc-shaped shell or by 3 primary arms or spines originating in the prismatic microsphere.

REMARKS

The known families in this superfamily are the Patulibracchiidae , Pseudoaulophacidae and Suttoniidae , from the Mesozoic to the Cenozoic as well as the Angulobracchiidae Baumgartner 1980 and Tritrabidae Baumgartner 1980 in the Mesozoic ( Dumitrica et al. 2013). Afanasieva et al. (2005) established a new order, Lobatiradiata , for the flat-shaped polycystines with three or more arms. These include the Angulobracchiidae , Patulibracchiidae , Hexaporobrachiidae , Hagiastridae , Suttoniidae and Myelastridae . However, a strong homeomorphy among them was repeatedly observed since 1980s.