Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Alternative spellings: Antale, Dentalium (Antalis)
Synonym: Entaliopsis Newton and Harris 1894
Parent taxon: Dentaliidae according to P. D. Reynolds and G. Steiner 2008
See also Gardner 1947, Harris and Palmer 1947, Jeffery and Tracey 1997, Marasti 1973, Sepkoski 2002, Waagen 1880 and Wienrich 1999
Sister taxa: Coccodentalium, Compressidentalium, Dentalium, Eodentalium, Eudentalium, Fissidentalium, Graptacme, Lentigodentalium, Minodentalium, Paleodentalium, Paradentalium, Pictodentalium, Plagioglypta, Schizodentalium, Striodentalium, Tesseracme
Subtaxa: Antalis acuta Antalis angusta Antalis antillarum Antalis bouei Antalis constricta Antalis interruptum Antalis kickxii Antalis pretiosa Dentalium (Antalis) apicostatum Dentalium (Antalis) danvillense Dentalium (Antalis) mississippiense Dentalium (Antalis) vincense
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (1 collection), Jamaica (2), United States (14: California, Florida)
• Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1), Venezuela (5)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Austria (4), the Dominican Republic (3), Germany (8), Indonesia (2), Italy (7), Japan (2), United States (11: Florida)
• Oligocene of Denmark (4), France (8), Germany (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Mexico (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Turkey (1), United States (9: Louisiana, Mississippi)
• Eocene of France (2), Mexico (3), Spain (15), the United Kingdom (7), United States (40: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas)
• Paleocene of New Zealand (7), Nigeria (1)
• Triassic of China (1), Germany (1), Slovakia (2)
• Permian of Pakistan (3)
Total: 173 collections including 201 occurrences
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