Lophophorata - Tentaculitida - 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 N. M. Farsan 1994
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Chelmastanites, Prolationus, Seretites, Sokolites, Tractabilis, Tractabilopsis, Tripartites, Ukrainites, Uniformites, Zendadjanites
Subtaxa: Tentaculites bellulus Tentaculites exaltatus Tentaculites grandis
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 (42), Canada (35: Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories and Yukon, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (2), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (4), Germany (8), 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)
• Ordovician of Australia (1), the Czech Republic (1), Estonia (1), Latvia (3), Norway (4), the United Kingdom (18), United States (12: Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia)
• Canadian of United States (1: Virginia)
Total: 520 collections including 576 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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