Paleodentalium kansasense Gentile 1974 (tusk shell)

Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae

Alternative combination: Dentalium (Paleodentalium) kansasense

Full reference: R. J. Gentile. 1974. A new species of Dentalium from the Pennsylvanian of Eastern Kansas. Journal of Paleontology 48(6):1213-1216

Belongs to Paleodentalium according to P. D. Reynolds and G. Steiner 2008

See also Gentile 1974

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: (UMKC MS 1, a shell

Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Scaphopod and associated specimines from the Wyandotte LS of Eastern Kansas (Carboniferous of Kansas)

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