Subfamily Gadilinae Stoliczka 1868 (tusk shell)

Scaphopoda - Gadilida - Gadilidae

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

Sister taxa: Calstevenus, Gadilopsis, Siphonodentaliinae

Subtaxa: Bathycadulus Cadulus Costentalina Gadila Sulcogadila

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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), Panama (2), United States (15: California, Florida)

• Pliocene of Costa Rica (6), Ecuador (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (3), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Panama (13), United States (13: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (4)

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

• Miocene of Australia (5), Belgium (1), the Dominican Republic (4), Ecuador (1), Germany (20), Grenada (2), Indonesia (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (2), Panama (55), Slovakia (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), United States (24: Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey), Venezuela (1)

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

• Eocene of Antarctica (3), Colombia (1), Mexico (4), the United Kingdom (2), United States (158: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Australia (1)

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

• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Alberta), Germany (1), United States (82: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas)

Total: 514 collections including 574 occurrences

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