Fissidentalium longistriatum Yoo 1988 (tusk shell)

Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae

Full reference: E. K. Yoo. 1988. Early Carboniferous Mollusca from Gundy, Upper Hunter, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 40(3):233-264

Belongs to Fissidentalium according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Yoo 1988

Sister taxa: Dentalium (Fissidentalium) mawsoni, Fissidentalium badense, Fissidentalium granadanum, Fissidentalium inaequale, Fissidentalium mantelli, Fissidentalium rei, Fissidentalium solidissimum, Fissidentalium uscarianum

Type specimen: Its type locality is Marohn Homestead. Yoo Loc. A3. 70 m west of Scone-Gundy road junction, which is in a Tournaisian marine mudstone/limestone in the Dangarfield Formation of Australia.

Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Marohn Homestead. Yoo Loc. A3. 70 m west of Scone-Gundy road junction

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