Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Laevidentaliidae
Full reference: C.P. Palmer. 1974. A suprageneric classification of the scaphopod Mollusca. Veliger 17:115-123
Parent taxon: Dentaliida according to P. D. Reynolds and G. Steiner 2008
See also Palmer 1974 and Wells and Houston 2001
Sister taxa: Anulidentaliidae, Baltodentaliidae, Calliodentaliidae, Dentaliidae, Fustiariidae, Gadilinidae, Omniglyptidae, Prodentaliidae, Progadilina, Rhabdidae, Suevidontus
Subtaxa: Laevidentalium Pipadentalium Scissuradentalium
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Costa Rica (1)
• Pliocene of Jamaica (1), Panama (1), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Belgium (1), Chile (9), Germany (2), Japan (4), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (6)
• Oligocene of Italy (1)
• Eocene of New Zealand (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Washington)
• Paleocene of Greenland (1), Japan (1), New Zealand (1)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1)
• Jurassic of Germany (33), Poland (36)
• Triassic of China (12), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (1)
• Carboniferous of Australia (1), the Czech Republic (1), United States (3: Alaska, Iowa, Oklahoma)
Total: 130 collections including 132 occurrences