Scaphopoda - Gadilida - Gadilidae
Parent taxon: Gadilinae according to P. D. Reynolds and G. Steiner 2008
See also Caetano et al. 2006, Emerson 1957, Gardner 1947, Harris and Palmer 1947, Mansfield 1925, Martin 1904, Palmer 1923, Sepkoski 2002, Ward and Blackwelder 1987, Wells and Houston 2001 and Wienrich 1999
Sister taxa: Bathycadulus, Costentalina, Gadila, Sulcogadila
Subtaxa: Cadulus (Cadulus) Cadulus (Platyschides) Cadulus acuminatus Cadulus bellulus Cadulus caronensis Cadulus conradi Cadulus eliezeri Cadulus infans Cadulus jacksonensis Cadulus juvenis Cadulus nerta Cadulus newtonensis Cadulus nitentior Cadulus nutans Cadulus ovulum Cadulus parianus Cadulus thallus Cadulus waynensis Cadulus yatalensis
Type: Dentalium ovulum
Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Costa Rica (4), Ecuador (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Panama (2), United States (7: California, Florida)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (6), Ecuador (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (3), Mexico (1), Panama (13), United States (10: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene of Australia (3), the Dominican Republic (3), Germany (2), Grenada (2), Indonesia (1), New Zealand (2), Panama (49), Trinidad and Tobago (2), United States (16: Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey)
• Oligocene of Denmark (1), Haiti (1), Hungary (2), Panama (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (16: Mississippi, Washington)
• Eocene of Antarctica (3), Colombia (1), Mexico (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (166: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), Germany (1), United States (44: Alabama, Louisiana, Maryland, Texas, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Alberta), Germany (1), United States (83: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 461 collections including 498 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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