Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Parent taxon: Dentaliidae according to P. D. Reynolds and G. Steiner 2008
See also Gardner 1947, Harris and Palmer 1947, Kensley and Pether 1986, Mansfield 1925, Marasti 1973, Martin 1904, Moore 1976, Moore 1984, Nagao 1928, Oostingh 1935, Perrilliat 1992, Pugaczewska 1984, Rohr et al. 2006, Sepkoski 2002, Squires 1984, Squires 1987, Squires and Demetrion 1992, Stanton 1895, Turner 1938, Wells and Houston 2001 and Wienrich 1999
Sister taxa: Antalis, Coccodentalium, Compressidentalium, Eodentalium, Eudentalium, Fissidentalium, Graptacme, Lentigodentalium, Minodentalium, Paleodentalium, Paradentalium, Pictodentalium, Plagioglypta, Schizodentalium, Striodentalium, Tesseracme
Subtaxa: Dentalium (Dentalium) Dentalium (Fissidentalium) Dentalium (Graptacme) Dentalium (Laevidentalium) Dentalium (Pseudantilis) Dentalium alazanum Dentalium angsananum Dentalium aratum Dentalium arcotinum Dentalium arctum Dentalium ashiyaensis Dentalium atratum Dentalium attenuatum Dentalium bifrons Dentalium bitubatum Dentalium bocasense Dentalium caduloide Dentalium californicum Dentalium cannaliculatum Dentalium cooperi Dentalium cossmannianum Dentalium decoratum Dentalium denotatum Dentalium dumblei Dentalium giganteum Dentalium gonatodes Dentalium hamatum Dentalium hanguense Dentalium hecetaensis Dentalium indianum Dentalium junghuhni Dentalium klipsteini Dentalium laeve Dentalium laevigatum Dentalium laqueatum Dentalium latisulcatum Dentalium leve Dentalium lombardicum Dentalium mancorens Dentalium microstria Dentalium minutistriatum Dentalium montense Dentalium moreanum Dentalium multicanaliculatum Dentalium neohexagonum Dentalium numerosum Dentalium ovale Dentalium porterensis Dentalium pseudonyma Dentalium radiolineata Dentalium rimosum Dentalium rugiferum Dentalium sacheri Dentalium sandbergeri Dentalium schencki Dentalium schlosseri Dentalium simile Dentalium solidum Dentalium sorbii Dentalium soriense Dentalium speyeri Dentalium stentor Dentalium stramineum Dentalium subcompressum Dentalium sundkrogensis Dentalium tenuicostatum Dentalium tenuistriatum Dentalium tornatissimum Dentalium triquetrum Dentalium vacavillensis Dentalium yasilum
Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Chile (1), Costa Rica (5), Cuba (1), Ecuador (1), India (1), Italy (4), Jamaica (2), Japan (5), Mayotte (1), Mexico (9), Morocco (1), Panama (3), Spain (1), Taiwan (3), Thailand (2), United States (44: California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North 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 (10), the Dominican Republic (3), Ecuador (9), Haiti (1), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Indonesia (9), Italy (5), Jamaica (3), Japan (2), Mexico (3), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (14), Papua New Guinea (1), South Africa (2), Spain (1), Trinidad and Tobago (14), the United Kingdom (2), United States (24: California, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2), South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Argentina (5), Australia (4), Belgium (2), Brazil (4), Chile (10), Colombia (34), Cyprus (3), Denmark (1), the Dominican Republic (3), France (1), Germany (46), Grenada (3), Haiti (1), India (1), Indonesia (13), Italy (2), Japan (21), Malaysia (1), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (13), Panama (36), Papua New Guinea (3), the Philippines (1), Romania (1), Slovakia (1), Trinidad and Tobago (17), United States (27: Alaska, California, Florida, Maryland, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Denmark (2), Ecuador (2), France (11), Germany (1), Hungary (5), Italy (1), Japan (22), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (12), Panama (3), Peru (1), Romania (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (97: Alabama, Alaska, California, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Washington)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (1), Canada (2: British Colombia, British Columbia), Colombia (1), France (1), Germany (1), Indonesia (4), Italy (1), Jamaica (2), Libya (1), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (8), Nigeria (2), Pakistan (10), Panama (3), Peru (3), Spain (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (26), United States (261: 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 (1), Austria (2), Belgium (1), Denmark (7), Egypt (1), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (3), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (2), United States (88: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (2), Australia (2), Canada (5: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan), Cuba (1), France (10), Germany (3), 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 (3), United States (216: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of Greenland (22), India (33), New Zealand (1), Poland (21), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (2: Alaska, Montana)
• Triassic of Austria (4), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Germany (3), Greenland (1), Hungary (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (21), Mexico (1), New Zealand (2), Papua New Guinea (2), Peru (3), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (8), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
• Permian of China (18), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: Kansas, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Carboniferous of United States (3: California, Nevada, Texas)
• Devonian of Canada (5: Manitoba)
• Silurian of United States (1: Alaska)
Total: 1562 collections including 1796 occurrences
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