Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Parent taxon: Dentalium according to Cossmann 1888
See also Gardner 1947, Harris and Palmer 1947, Oostingh 1935, Reynolds and Steiner 2008, Sepkoski 2002, Squires 1984, Wells and Houston 2001 and Wienrich 1999
Sister taxa: Dentalium (Dentalium), Dentalium (Fissidentalium), Dentalium (Graptacme), 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 ovale, Dentalium porterensis, 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
Subtaxa: Dentalium (Laevidentalium) calafium Dentalium (Laevidentalium) danai Dentalium (Laevidentalium) lacteolum Dentalium (Laevidentalium) largicrescens Dentalium (Laevidentalium) lighti Dentalium (Laevidentalium) pictile Dentalium (Laevidentalium) pseudorakhiense Dentalium (Laevidentalium) rakhiense
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (2 collections)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Jamaica (1)
• Miocene of Haiti (1), Indonesia (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (6), United States (5: Florida)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (1)
• Eocene of New Zealand (4), Pakistan (7), Panama (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (22: California, Louisiana, Mississippi)
• Paleocene of New Zealand (2), Nigeria (1)
• Triassic of the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 60 collections including 62 occurrences