Dentalium (Laevidentalium) pseudorakhiense Eames 1952 (tusk shell)

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 (Laevidentalium) according to F. E. Eames 1952

Sister taxa: Dentalium (Laevidentalium) calafium, Dentalium (Laevidentalium) danai, Dentalium (Laevidentalium) lacteolum, Dentalium (Laevidentalium) largicrescens, Dentalium (Laevidentalium) lighti, Dentalium (Laevidentalium) pictile, Dentalium (Laevidentalium) rakhiense

Type specimen: BMNH G.68014, a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.1986, Rakhi Nala, which is in a Bartonian marine shale in the Drazinda Formation of Pakistan.

Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Fossil Bed F.1986, Rakhi Nala

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