Emended description:Saturnalinae dépourvu de rayons auxiliaires, à anneau multiple. Les épines secondaires sont indifféremment (1) en position polaire ou non, (2) dans le prolongement des épines primaires ou non.
[Saturnalinae without auxiliary rays and with a multiple ring. Secondary spines at, or not, polar location, and, or not, in the axis of primary spines.]
Remarks:Ce genre diffère des autres Saturnalinae par son anneau (double ou triple) et des autres Saturnalidae par ses épines (primaires) péripolaires.
[This genus differs from the other Saturnalinae by its double or triple ring, and from the other Saturnalidae by its (primary) peripolar spines.]
Stratigraphic range:(?) Late Triassic - Lias - Late Cretaceous. Mesozoic.
Subsequent descriptions:YES

Comments:Emended definition, remarks and included species are a literal English translation of De Wever, 1984a.
Subsequent descriptions:?

Literature cited:- De Wever, P. (1984a). Révision des radiolaires mésozoiques de type Saturnalidae, proposition d'une nouvelle classification (Revision of Mesozoic saturnalid-type radiolarians. Proposition of a new classification). Revue de Micropaléontologie 27(1): 10-19.
- De Wever, P. and I. Origlia (1984). Klassifikatsiya saturnalid na osnove ikh simmetry (A classification of saturnalid type forms based on symmetry). Morfologiya, ekologiya i evolutsiya Radiolyarii. Materialy IV simpoziuma evropeiskikh radiolyaristov EURORAD IV (Morphology, ecology and evolution of radiolarians. Material from the IV symposium of European radiolarists EURORAD IV). M. G. Petrushevskaya and S. D. Stepanjants. Leningrad, USSR, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Zoological Institute: 103-113.