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Dentaliidae

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Dentalium sp.

Lake Nacogdoches spillway, Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA

Dentalium sp.

Lake Nacogdoches spillway, Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA

Dentalium sp.

Lake Nacogdoches spillway, Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA

Description

Dentaliidae is a family of relatively large tusk shells, scaphopod mollusks in the order Dentaliida.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dentaliidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3323	https://www.gbif.org/species/3323
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	60075	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=60075

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Scaphopoda : Dentaliida : Dentaliidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Scaphopoda	Bronn 1862
order	Dentaliida	Da Costa 1776
family	Dentaliidae	Gray 1834

Scientific Name

Dentaliidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Dentaliidae	family	belongs to Scaphopoda	stated with evidence	Stanton, 1895
Dentaliidae	family	belongs to Solenoconchia	stated without evidence	Martin, 1904
Dentaliidae	family	belongs to Scaphopoda	stated without evidence	Turner, 1938
Dentaliidae	family	belongs to Dentalioida	stated without evidence	Palmer, 1974
Dentaliidae	family	belongs to Scaphopoda	stated without evidence	Squires, 1984
Dentaliidae	family	belongs to Dentalioida	stated without evidence	Squires, 1988
Dentaliidae	family	belongs to Scaphopoda	stated without evidence	Wienrich, 1999
Dentaliidae	family	misspelling of Dentaliidae	stated without evidence	Wienrich, 1999
Dentaliidae	family	belongs to Dentaliida	implied	Wells and Houston, 2001
Dentaliidae	family	belongs to Dentaliida	stated with evidence	Reynolds and Steiner, 2008

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

128

Extant Size (PBDB)

27 (21%)

First Recorded Appearance

427 - 423 Ma
Silurian

Motility

slow-moving (based on Dentaliida)

Vision

blind (based on Scaphopoda)

Diet

deposit feeder (based on Dentaliida)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Scaphopoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

D. T. Dockery. 1993. The Streptoneuran gastropods, exclusive of the Stenoglossa, of the coffee sand (Campanian) of Northeastern Mississippi. Bulletin (Mississippi Office of Geology) 129:1-191

Common Name(s)

Elefantenzähne, Zahnschnecken, Dentaliidés, Olifantstanden, Tusks, Tuskshells, ゾウゲツノガイ

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dentaliidae

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Antalis genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		174	347 Ma Carboniferous	0 Ma Extant
Coccodentalium genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	47.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Compressidentalium genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Dentalium genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1,641	427 Ma Silurian	0 Ma Extant
Eodentalium ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Eudentalium genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eudentalium genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Fissidentalium genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		109	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	0 Ma Extant
Graptacme genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	3.60 Ma Pliocene	0 Ma Extant
Lentigodentalium genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		57	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Paleodentalium ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Paradentalium genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	13.8 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Pictodentalium genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Plagioglypta ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		172	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Schizodentalium genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Striodentalium genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	61.6 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Tesseracme genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		36	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Fustiara rigauxi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Dentalliidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Mollusca : Scaphopoda : Dentaliida : Dentalliidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1834	Dentaliidae Gray
1895	Dentaliidae Stanton p. 62
1904	Dentaliidae Martin p. 271
1938	Dentaliidae Turner p. 96
1974	Dentalliidae Palmer
1984	Dentaliidae Squires p. 15

Year	Name and Author
1987	Dentaliidae Squires p. 20
1988	Dentaliidae Squires p. 7
1999	Dentaliidae Wienrich p. 263
2001	Dentaliidae Wells and Houston p. 94
2008	Dentaliidae Reynolds and Steiner p. 147 figs. Table 7.1

References

Dockery D. T. (1993) The Streptoneuran gastropods, exclusive of the Stenoglossa, of the coffee sand (Campanian) of Northeastern Mississippi, Bulletin (Mississippi Office of Geology) 129, 1-191

Stanton T. W. Contributions to the Cretaceous paleontology of the Pacific coast. : The fauna of the Knoxville, Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 133, 1-132 doi:10.3133/b133

Martin G. C. (1904) Scaphopoda, Maryland Geological Survey Miocene Text, 271-274

Turner F. E. (1938) Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon, Geological Society of America Special Paper 10, 1-130

Squires R. L. (1984) Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 350, 1-76

Squires R. L. (1987) Eocene molluscan paleontology of the Whitaker Peak area, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 388, 1-93

Squires R. L. (1988) Eocene Macropaleontology of Northern Lockwood Valley, Ventura County, California, Contributions in Science (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) 398, 1-23

Wienrich G. (1999) Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 2 Bivalvia, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda, Bryozoa, Annelida, Brachiopoda, Backhuys Publishers, Leiden 2, 188-384

Wells A., Houston W. W. K. (2001) , Zoological Catalogue of Australia: Mollusca 17 2

Reynolds P. D., Steiner G. (2008) Chapter 7. Scaphopoda, Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca, 143-161

Steiner, G.; Kabat, A. R. (2004). Catalog of species-group names of Recent and fossil Scaphopoda (Mollusca). Zoosystema. 26(4): 549-726. - via World Register of Marine Species

Steiner, G.; Kabat, A. R. (2001). Catalogue of supraspecific taxa of Scaphopoda (Mollusca). Zoosystema. 23(3): 433-460. - via World Register of Marine Species

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Steiner, Gerhard, and Alan R. Kabat, 2001: Catalogue of supraspecific taxa of Scaphopoda (Mollusca). Zoosystema, vol. 23, no. 3. 433-460. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Le Renard, J. (2016) CLEMAM: Check List of European Marine Mollusca. Online: http://www.somali.asso.fr/clemam/index.clemam.html - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Gärdenfors, Ulf, Hall, Ragnar, Hallingbäck, Tomas, Hansson, Hans G. & Hedström, Lars (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj. ArtDatabanken Rapporterar 5, ArtDatabanken, Uppsala. (reviderad excelfil med svenska djurfamiljer). - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

WoRMS (2016) Accessed through World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/ - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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