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Tentaculites
Taxonomy
Tentaculites was named by von Schlotheim (1820) [Sepkoski's age data: O Trem D Fras-m Sepkoski's reference number: 1066]. Its type is Tentaculites scalaris. It is the type genus of Tentaculitidae.
It was assigned to Tentaculitida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Tentaculitidae by Farsan (1994), Comniskey and Ghilardi (2018).
It was assigned to Tentaculitida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Tentaculitidae by Farsan (1994), Comniskey and Ghilardi (2018).
Species
T. bellulus, T. brevitenui, T. exaltatus, T. fissurella, T. grandis, T. kozlowskii, T. paranaensis, T. scalaris (type species)
Species lacking formal opinion data
T. abnormis, T. absimilis, T. acuarius, T. anglicus, T. anglicus, T. antarcticus, T. attenuatus, T. bergeri, T. canadensis, T. crassus, T. crotalinus, T. desuetes, T. desuetus, T. elegans, T. elongatus, T. excellens, T. formalis, T. formosus, T. fuhrmani, T. gedinnianus, T. gothemensis, T. gracilis, T. gracilistriatus, T. gyracanthus, T. gyrocanthus, T. hisingeri, T. inaequale, T. irregularis, T. jaculus, T. lebiensis, T. leclercqi, T. limatulus, T. liquis, T. lowdoni, T. loxus, T. lucasi, T. maslovi, T. medius, T. minutus, T. mitkovensis, T. multiannulatus, T. niagarense, T. niagarensis, T. nikiforovae, T. obliquus, T. obstipus, T. ornatus, T. reedsi, T. russiensis, T. scalariformis, T. scaleriformis, T. schlotheimi, T. simmondsi, T. spiculus, T. spinaeformis, T. sterlingensis, T. straeleni, T. straeleni, T. straenleni, T. tenuis, T. trombetensis, T. tronjkoi, T. tschortkovensis, T. velaini
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1820 | Tentaculites von Schlotheim |
| 1994 | Tentaculites Farsan p. 53 figs. Table 9 |
| 2002 | Tentaculites Sepkoski |
| 2018 | Tentaculites Comniskey and Ghilardi |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Tentaculites von Schlotheim 1820
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†Tentaculites bellulus Hall 1876
†Tentaculites brevitenui Wei et al. 2019
†Tentaculites exaltatus Talent 1963
†Tentaculites fissurella Hall 1843
†Tentaculites grandis Roemer 1870
†Tentaculites kozlowskii Comniskey and Ghilardi 2018
†Tentaculites paranaensis Comniskey and Ghilardi 2018
†Tentaculites scalaris von Schlotheim 1820
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Lancefieldian to the top of the Visean or 484.30000 to 330.30000 Ma
Collections (524 total)
Oldest occurrences | |||
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Tremadocian | USA (Virginia) | T. lowdoni, T. scalaris (78881) | |
| Canadian | USA (Virginia) | T. sp. (80573) | |
| Lancefieldian | Australia (Tasmania) | T. sp. (2671) | |
| Soudleyan | United Kingdom (Wales) | T. sp. (3301) | |
| Soudleyan - Marshbrookian | United Kingdom (England) | T. sp. (3648 3649 3651 3652 3653 3654) | |
| Late/Upper Ordovician | USA (Indiana) | T. sp. (398) | |
| Mohawkian | USA (Virginia) | T. sp. (85589) | |
| Shermanian | USA (Tennessee) | T. obliquus (5350) | |
| Longvillian | United Kingdom (Wales) | T. sp. (192388) | |
| Longvillian | United Kingdom (Walers) | T. sp. (3304) | |
Youngest occurrences |
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| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | PBDB collection number |
| Early/Lower Frasnian | USA (New York) | T. sp. (65400) | |
| Frasnian | USA (Ohio) | T. gracilistriatus (74950 74951) | |
| Frasnian | USA (New York) | T. sp. (65698) | |
| Frasnian | Canada (Alberta) | T. sp. (3409 3410 3411 3412 3413 3414 3415 3416 3417) | |
| Frasnian | USA (Nevada) | T. sp. (7117) | |
| Frasnian - Famennian | USA (Virginia) | T. sp. (636) | |
| Middle Frasnian | France | T. sp. (65764) | |
| Early/Lower Famennian | Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen) | T. acuarius (235121) | |
| Kinderhookian | USA (Indiana) | T. gracilistriatus (6935) | |
| Visean | Australia (New South Wales) | T. sp. (58025 58034 62638) | |