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Dentaliida

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Dentaliida
Temporal range: Tournaisian–Recent[1]
Shells of Antalis entalis (top)
and Antalis vulgaris (bottom)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Scaphopoda
Order: Dentaliida
da Costa, 1776

Dentaliida is one of the two orders of scaphopod mollusks, commonly known as elephant's tusk shells. The order Dentaliida contains most of the larger scaphopods.

Families

References

  1. ^ Yoo, E. K. (1988). "Early Carboniferous Mollusca from Gundy, Upper Hunter, New South Wales". Records of the Australian Museum. 40 (4): 233–264. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.40.1988.157.