Family Gadilidae Stoliczka 1868 (tusk shell)

Scaphopoda - Gadilida - Gadilidae

Parent taxon: Gadilimorpha according to P. D. Reynolds and G. Steiner 2008

See also Wells and Houston 2001

Sister taxa: Pulsellidae, Wemersoniellidae

Subtaxa: Calstevenus Gadilinae Gadilopsis Siphonodentaliinae

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Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Costa Rica (4), Ecuador (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Panama (2), United States (16: California, Florida)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1)

• Pliocene of Costa Rica (6), Ecuador (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (3), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Panama (21), United States (13: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (7)

• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Alaska)

• Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (5), Belgium (1), Denmark (1), the Dominican Republic (4), Ecuador (1), Germany (20), Grenada (2), Indonesia (2), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (2), Panama (76), Slovakia (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), United States (36: Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey), Venezuela (1)

• Oligocene of Denmark (2), Haiti (1), Hungary (2), Panama (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (16: Mississippi, Washington)

• Eocene of Antarctica (3), Colombia (1), France (1), Japan (1), Mexico (4), Panama (2), the United Kingdom (4), United States (178: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Australia (1)

• Paleocene of Australia (2), Austria (1), Denmark (4), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Mexico (1), United States (44: Alabama, Louisiana, Maryland, Texas, Virginia)

• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Alberta), Germany (1), United States (83: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas)

• Permian of United States (6: Nevada)

Total: 602 collections including 695 occurrences

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