Gadila Gray 1847 (tusk shell)

Scaphopoda - Gadilida - Gadilidae

Alternative spelling: Cadulus (Gadila)

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

See also Gardner 1947, Jung 1965, Sepkoski 2002, Wells and Houston 2001 and Wienrich 1999

Sister taxa: Bathycadulus, Cadulus, Costentalina, Sulcogadila

Subtaxa: Cadulus (Gadila) gadus Cadulus (Gadila) phenax Gadila aberrans Gadila gracilina Gadila mucronatus

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Type: Dentalium gadus

Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (8: California collections)

• Pliocene of Jamaica (1), Japan (1), United States (3: California), Venezuela (3)

• Miocene of Australia (2), Belgium (1), the Dominican Republic (3), Ecuador (1), Germany (20), the Netherlands (1), Panama (6), Slovakia (1), United States (10: Florida), Venezuela (1)

• Eocene of Mexico (1), United States (10: Alabama, Texas)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Australia (1)

• Paleocene of Australia (2), Greenland (1), Mexico (1)

Total: 78 collections including 87 occurrences

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