Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Prodentaliidae
Full reference: W. W. Nassichuk and K. A. Hodgkinson. 1976. Scaphopods from the Permian Assistance Formation, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Journal of Paleontology 50(6):1150-1156
Belongs to Prodentalium according to W. W. Nassichuk and K. A. Hodgkinson 1976
Sister taxa: Prodentalium akasakensis, Prodentalium canna, Prodentalium neornatum, Prodentalium onoi, Prodentalium raymondi, Prodentalium semicostatum, Prodentalium sublaeve
Type specimen: GSC 13777, a shell. Its type locality is GSC 26406, Lyall River, Grinnell Peninsula, Devon Island, which is in a Roadian offshore shelf sandstone/limestone in the Assistance Formation of Canada.
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: found only at GSC 26406, Lyall River, Grinnell Peninsula, Devon Island
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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