Laevidentalium Cossmann 1888 (tusk shell)

Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Laevidentaliidae

Parent taxon: Laevidentaliidae according to P. D. Reynolds and G. Steiner 2008

Sister taxa: Pipadentalium, Scissuradentalium

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Costa Rica (1)

• Pliocene of Jamaica (1), Panama (1), Venezuela (1)

• Miocene of Argentina (1), Belgium (1), Chile (9), Germany (2), Japan (4), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (6)

• Oligocene of Italy (1)

• Eocene of New Zealand (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Washington)

• Paleocene of Greenland (1), Japan (1), New Zealand (1)

• Cretaceous of Australia (1)

• Jurassic of Germany (33), Poland (36)

• Triassic of China (12), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (1)

• Carboniferous of the Czech Republic (1), United States (3: Alaska, Iowa, Oklahoma)

Total: 129 collections including 130 occurrences

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