Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Parent taxon: Dentaliidae according to P. D. Reynolds and G. Steiner 2008
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Yoo 1988
Sister taxa: Antalis, Coccodentalium, Compressidentalium, Dentalium, Eodentalium, Eudentalium, Fissidentalium, Graptacme, Lentigodentalium, Minodentalium, Paleodentalium, Paradentalium, Pictodentalium, Schizodentalium, Striodentalium, Tesseracme
Subtaxa: Plagioglypta annulostriata Plagioglypta numerosa Plagioglypta undulata
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Poland (14 collections), the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of China (2), Germany (3), Hungary (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (28), Peru (2), United States (2: Utah)
• Permian of Australia (1), China (1), India (2), Mexico (2), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1), United States (23: Arizona, Montana, Nevada, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Carboniferous of Australia (3), United States (39: Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas)
Total: 128 collections including 129 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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