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Dentaliidae

Dentaliidae

Overview

Dentaliidae Gray, 1834

Common Name: Tusk shells

Extant/Extinct

Key morphological features: Shells gradually taper and may be smooth or have sculptured ridges.

        SIZE:

Paleoecology:

        MOBILITY: Mobile (burrow)

        FEEDING MODE: Deposit Feeder

        HABITAT: Semi-infaunal

Sources:

Ludbrook, N. H. et al. 1960. Scaphopoda, in R. C. Moore ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part I, Mollusca 1, Volume 1. The University of Kansas and Geological Society of America. 351 pp.


Genera of Dentaliidae present in the Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway