Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Alternative combinations: Dentalium meekanum, Dentalium meekianum, Plagioglypta meekiana
Full reference: N.B. Geinitz. 1866. Carbonformation und Dyas in Nebraska. Kaiserliche Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Deutsche Akademie Naturforscher Verhandlungen 33:1-92
Belongs to Minodentalium according to K. Asato and T. Kase 2021
See also Geinitz 1866, Girty 1915 and Raymond 1911
Sister taxa: Minodentalium furcatum, Minodentalium girtyi, Minodentalium hayasakai, Minodentalium herculeum, Minodentalium ingens, Minodentalium okumurai, Minodentalium priscum, Minodentalium prosseri, Minodentalium subannulatum
Type specimen: Its type locality is Nebraska City Section, Clay Pits southeast of Nebraska City, which is in a Virgilian marine shale in the Pillsbury Shale Formation of Nebraska
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (3: Missouri, Nebraska, Pennsylvania collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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