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 (16: California, Florida)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: California)

• Pliocene of Costa Rica (6), Ecuador (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (3), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Panama (13), United States (16: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (4)

• Miocene of Australia (5), the Dominican Republic (4), Ecuador (1), Germany (19), Grenada (2), Indonesia (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 (170: 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 (83: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas)

Total: 528 collections including 592 occurrences

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