Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Full reference: F. E. Eames. 1952. A contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: C. The description of the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda from standard sections in the Rakhi Nala and Zindar Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 236:1-168
Belongs to Dentalium according to F. E. Eames 1952
Sister taxa: Dentalium (Dentalium), Dentalium (Fissidentalium), Dentalium (Graptacme), Dentalium (Laevidentalium), 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 speyeri, Dentalium stentor, Dentalium stramineum, Dentalium subcompressum, Dentalium sundkrogensis, Dentalium tenuicostatum, Dentalium tenuistriatum, Dentalium tornatissimum, Dentalium triquetrum, Dentalium vacavillensis, Dentalium yasilum
Type specimen: BMNH G 68000, a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.2678, Zinda Pir, which is in a Ypresian marine shale in the Ghazij Formation of Pakistan.
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Pakistan (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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