
Belongs within: Eucyrtidioidea.
The Eucyrtidiinae are a group of radiolarians, known from the Triassic to the present, with three to ten segments and no specific cephalothorax (Afanasieva et al. 2005).
<==Eucyrtidiinae [Artophormida, Artophormidae, Artophormididae, Artophormidinae]AA05 |--Artocyrtis Haeckel 1997AA05 |--Artophormis Haeckel 1881AA05 |--Clathropyrgus Haeckel 1881AA05 |--Cyrtocapsella Haeckel 1887AA05 |--Cyrtocapsoma Haeckel 1887AA05 |--Cyrtophormiscus Haeckel 1887AA05 |--Eusyringoma Haeckel 1887AA05 |--Glomaria Sanfilippo & Riedel 1970AA05 |--Immersothorax Dumitrica 1970AA05 |--Lithomitrissa Haeckel 1887AA05 |--Lithopera Ehrenberg 1847AA05 |--Spirocyrtoma Haeckel 1887AA05 |--Stichopodium Haeckel 1881AA05 |--Stichopterygium Haeckel 1881AA05 |--Syringium Principi 1909AA05 |--Theocampe Haeckel 1887AA05 |--Trocolocamptra Haeckel 1887AA05 |--Acanthocyrtis Haeckel 1881AA05 | `--A. anthemis Haeckel 1887BC98 |--Artocapsa Haeckel 1881 [Artocapsida]AA05 | `--A. ulbimaBL79 |--Cyrtophormis Haeckel 1887AA05 | `--C. spiralisH04 |--Lithocampe Ehrenberg 1838 [Lithocampida]AA05 | `--L. platycephala (Ehrenberg 1872)BC98 |--Stychocorys Haeckel 1881 [Stichocorida, Stichoridae, Stichocorythidae]AA05 | `--S. seriata Jørgensen 1905BC98 `--Eucyrtidium Ehrenberg 1847AA05 |--E. calvertensePL80 |--E. elongatumBC79 | |--E. e. elongatumBC79 | `--E. e. peregrinumBC79 `--E. matuyamaiPL80
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[AA05] Afanasieva, M. S., E. O. Amon, Y. V. Agarkov & D. S. Boltovskoy. 2005. Radiolarians in the geological record. Paleontological Journal 39 (Suppl. 3): S135–S392.
[BL79] Basov, V. A., B. G. Lopatin, I. S. Gramberg, A. I. Danjushevskaya, V. Ya. Kaban’kov, V. M. Lazurkin & D. K. Patrunov. 1979. Lower Cretaceous lithostratigraphy near Galicia Bank. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 47: 683–717.
[BC79] Berggren, W. A., & J. A. Van Couvering. 1979. Quaternary. In: Robison, R. A., & C. Teichert (eds) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt A. Introduction. Fossilisation (Taphonomy), Biogeography and Biostratigraphy pp. A505–A543. The Geological Society of America, Inc.: Boulder (Colorado), and The University of Kansas: Lawrence (Kansas).
[BC98] Bjørklund, K. R., G. Cortese, N. Swanberg & H. J. Schrader. 1998. Radiolarian faunal provinces in surface sediments of the Greenland, Iceland and Norwegian (GIN) Seas. Marine Micropalaeontology 35: 105–140.
[H04] Haeckel, E. 1899–1904. Kunstformen der Natur. Bibliographisches Institut: Leipzig und Wien.
[PL80] Prothero, D. R., & D. B. Lazarus. 1980. Planktonic microfossils and the recognition of ancestors. Systematic Zoology 29 (2): 119–129.