Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Alternative spelling: Dentalliidae
Parent taxon: Dentaliida according to P. D. Reynolds and G. Steiner 2008
See also Harris and Palmer 1947, Martin 1904, Palmer 1974, Squires 1984, Squires 1987, Squires 1988, Stanton 1895, Turner 1938, Wells and Houston 2001 and Wienrich 1999
Sister taxa: Anulidentaliidae, Baltodentaliidae, Calliodentaliidae, Fustiariidae, Gadilinidae, Laevidentaliidae, Omniglyptidae, Prodentaliidae, Progadilina, Rhabdidae, Suevidontus
Subtaxa: Antalis Coccodentalium Compressidentalium Dentalium Eodentalium Eudentalium Fissidentalium Graptacme Lentigodentalium Minodentalium Paleodentalium Paradentalium Pictodentalium Plagioglypta Schizodentalium Striodentalium Tesseracme
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Chile (1), Costa Rica (5), Cuba (1), Ecuador (2), Haiti (1), India (1), Italy (5), Jamaica (2), Japan (5), Mayotte (1), Mexico (9), Morocco (1), Panama (3), Spain (2), Taiwan (9), Thailand (2), United States (59: California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina), Yemen (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Chile (1), United States (10: California)
• Pliocene of Algeria (3), Antarctica (1), Australia (1), Belgium (1), Costa Rica (11), the Dominican Republic (4), Ecuador (11), Haiti (1), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), India (1), Indonesia (9), Italy (5), Jamaica (4), Japan (3), Mexico (3), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (21), Papua New Guinea (1), South Africa (2), Spain (1), Trinidad and Tobago (14), the United Kingdom (2), United States (25: California, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (7)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (4), South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Argentina (5), Australia (7), Austria (3), Belgium (3), Brazil (4), Chile (10), Colombia (40), Costa Rica (6), Cyprus (3), Denmark (1), the Dominican Republic (6), France (1), Germany (58), Grenada (5), Haiti (1), India (1), Indonesia (13), Italy (8), Japan (38), Malaysia (1), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (15), Panama (51), Papua New Guinea (3), the Philippines (1), Romania (1), Slovakia (4), Trinidad and Tobago (17), United States (32: Alaska, California, Florida, Maryland, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington), Venezuela (3)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Denmark (7), Ecuador (2), France (19), Germany (2), Hungary (5), Italy (1), Japan (23), Mexico (4), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (16), Panama (8), Peru (1), Romania (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), Turkey (1), United States (102: Alabama, Alaska, California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (1), Australia (4), Canada (2: British Colombia, British Columbia), Colombia (1), France (2), Germany (1), Indonesia (4), Italy (1), Jamaica (2), Libya (1), Mexico (5), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (10), Nigeria (2), Pakistan (10), Panama (3), Peru (3), Spain (16), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (33), United States (292: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Australia (1)
• Paleogene of United States (1: California)
• Paleocene of Argentina (2), Australia (3), Austria (2), Belgium (1), Denmark (7), Egypt (1), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (10), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (2), United States (88: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (2), Argentina (2), Australia (2), Canada (5: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan), Chile (1), Cuba (1), France (10), Germany (4), Greenland (2), Indian Ocean (1), Mexico (1), Mozambique (3), New Zealand (40), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), Switzerland (2), the United Kingdom (4), United States (217: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of Greenland (22), India (33), New Zealand (1), Poland (23), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (2: Alaska, Montana)
• Triassic of Austria (4), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (3), Germany (5), Greenland (1), Hungary (3), Indonesia (3), Italy (41), Mexico (1), New Zealand (2), Papua New Guinea (2), Peru (5), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (8), Slovakia (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (2: Utah)
• Permian of Australia (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (19), India (3), Iran (1), Japan (3), Mexico (2), New Zealand (3), Pakistan (43), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (30: Arizona, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Carboniferous of Australia (3), United States (44: California, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas)
• Devonian of Canada (5: Manitoba)
• Silurian of United States (1: Alaska)
Total: 1971 collections including 2434 occurrences