Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Alternative spelling: Dentalium (Tesseracme)
Parent taxon: Dentaliidae according to P. D. Reynolds and G. Steiner 2008
See also Pilsbry and Olsson 1941, Sepkoski 2002 and Wells and Houston 2001
Sister taxa: Antalis, Coccodentalium, Compressidentalium, Dentalium, Eodentalium, Eudentalium, Fissidentalium, Graptacme, Lentigodentalium, Minodentalium, Paleodentalium, Paradentalium, Pictodentalium, Plagioglypta, Schizodentalium, Striodentalium
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ecuador (1 collection), United States (2: Florida)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (3), Ecuador (2), India (1), Jamaica (4), Panama (4)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1)
• Miocene of Costa Rica (1), Haiti (1), Panama (14)
Total: 34 collections including 36 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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