Tentaculites von Schlotheim 1820

Tentaculita - Tentaculitidae

Full reference: E.F. von Schlotheim. 1820. Die Petrfactendunde auf ihrem jetzigen Standpunkte durch die Beshreibung seiner Sammlung versteinerter und fossiler Überreste des Thier- und Pflanzernreichs der Vorwelt erläutert 1-457

Parent taxon: Tentaculitidae according to J. Comniskey and R. Ghilardi 2018

See also Farsan 1994 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Chelmastanites, Prolationus, Seretites, Sokolites, Tractabilis, Tractabilopsis, Tripartites, Ukrainites, Uniformites, Zendadjanites

Subtaxa: Tentaculites bellulus Tentaculites brevitenui Tentaculites exaltatus Tentaculites fissurella Tentaculites grandis Tentaculites kozlowskii Tentaculites paranaensis Tentaculites scalaris

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Type: Tentaculites scalaris

Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of Australia (3 collections), United States (1: Indiana)

• Devonian of Afghanistan (3), Algeria (2), Antarctica (1), Australia (27), Bolivia (1), Brazil (44), Canada (35: Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories and Yukon, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (3), Colombia (1), Czechia (2), France (4), Germany (9), Ghana (1), Luxembourg (2), Morocco (1), New Zealand (3), Peru (1), Poland (8), South Africa (13), Spain (4), Ukraine (13), the United Kingdom (5), United States (104: Alaska, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennyslvania), Uruguay (1)

• Silurian to Devonian of China (1), Mauritania (1), Spain (1)

• Silurian of Algeria (1), Bolivia (1), Brazil (1), Canada (62: Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec), Estonia (1), Ireland (2), Morocco (1), Norway (12), Paraguay (3), Peru (1), Poland (2), Spain (3), Sweden (23), the United Kingdom (18), United States (57: California, Maryland, New York, Oklahoma, Virginia, West Virginia)

• Canadian of United States (1: Virginia)

• Ordovician of Australia (1), Czechia (1), Estonia (1), Latvia (3), Norway (4), the United Kingdom (18), United States (12: Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia)

Total: 524 collections including 580 occurrences

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