Scaphopoda - Gadilida - Gadilidae
Parent taxon: Gadilimorpha according to P. D. Reynolds and G. Steiner 2008
See also Wells and Houston 2001
Sister taxa: Pulsellidae, Wemersoniellidae
Subtaxa: Calstevenus Gadilinae Gadilopsis Siphonodentaliinae
Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Costa Rica (4), Ecuador (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Panama (2), United States (17: California, Florida)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (6), Ecuador (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (3), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Panama (21), United States (16: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (7)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Alaska)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (5), Denmark (1), the Dominican Republic (4), Ecuador (1), Germany (19), Grenada (2), Indonesia (2), New Zealand (2), Panama (76), Slovakia (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), United States (36: Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of Denmark (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Hungary (2), Panama (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (16: Mississippi, Washington)
• Eocene of Antarctica (4), Colombia (1), France (1), Japan (1), Mexico (4), Panama (2), the United Kingdom (4), United States (180: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Australia (1)
• Paleocene of Australia (2), Austria (1), Denmark (4), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Mexico (1), United States (44: Alabama, Louisiana, Maryland, Texas, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Alberta), Germany (1), United States (84: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas)
• Permian of United States (6: Nevada)
Total: 607 collections including 704 occurrences