Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 298353

Alternative combinations: Dentalium meekanum, Dentalium meekianum

Full reference: N.B. Geinitz. 1866. Carbonformation und Dyas in Nebraska. Kaiserliche Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Deutsche Akademie Naturforscher Verhandlungen 33:1-92

Belongs to Plagioglypta according to G. H. Girty 1915

Sister taxa: Plagioglypta annulostriata, Plagioglypta furcata, Plagioglypta girtyi, Plagioglypta herculea, Plagioglypta ingens, Plagioglypta numerosa, Plagioglypta prisca, Plagioglypta subannulata, Plagioglypta undulata

Type specimen: Its type locality is Nebraska City Section, Clay Pits southeast of Nebraska City, which is in a Virgilian marine shale in the Pillsbury Shale Formation of Nebraska

Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal deposit feeder