Dentalium porterensis Weaver 1912 (tusk shell)

Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae

Full reference: C. E. Weaver. 1912. A preliminary report on the Tertiary paleontology of western Washington. Washington Geological Survey Bulletin 15:1-80

Belongs to Dentalium according to J. W. Durham 1944

See also Weaver 1912

Sister taxa: Dentalium (Dentalium), Dentalium (Fissidentalium), Dentalium (Graptacme), Dentalium (Laevidentalium), Dentalium (Pseudantilis), Dentalium alazanum, Dentalium angsananum, Dentalium aratum, Dentalium arcotinum, Dentalium arctum, Dentalium ashiyaensis, Dentalium atratum, Dentalium attenuatum, Dentalium bifrons, Dentalium bitubatum, Dentalium bocasense, Dentalium caduloide, Dentalium californicum, Dentalium cannaliculatum, Dentalium cooperi, Dentalium cossmannianum, Dentalium decoratum, Dentalium denotatum, Dentalium dumblei, Dentalium giganteum, Dentalium gonatodes, Dentalium hamatum, Dentalium hanguense, Dentalium hecetaensis, Dentalium indianum, Dentalium junghuhni, Dentalium klipsteini, Dentalium laeve, Dentalium laevigatum, Dentalium laqueatum, Dentalium latisulcatum, Dentalium leve, Dentalium lombardicum, Dentalium mancorens, Dentalium microstria, Dentalium minutistriatum, Dentalium montense, Dentalium moreanum, Dentalium multicanaliculatum, Dentalium neohexagonum, Dentalium numerosum, Dentalium ovale, Dentalium pseudonyma, Dentalium radiolineata, Dentalium rimosum, Dentalium rugiferum, Dentalium sacheri, Dentalium sandbergeri, Dentalium schencki, Dentalium schlosseri, Dentalium simile, Dentalium solidum, Dentalium sorbii, Dentalium soriense, Dentalium speyeri, Dentalium stentor, Dentalium stramineum, Dentalium subcompressum, Dentalium sundkrogensis, Dentalium tenuicostatum, Dentalium tenuistriatum, Dentalium tornatissimum, Dentalium triquetrum, Dentalium vacavillensis, Dentalium yasilum

Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Oligocene of United States (10: Washington collections)

• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Washington)

• Eocene of United States (2: Washington)

Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence

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