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
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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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