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Gadilidae

Gadilidae

Overview

Gadilidae Stoliczka, 1868

Common Name: Tusk shells

Extant/Extinct

Key morphological features: Shells are slender with a distinct curve and may have a swollen middle.

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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 Gadilidae present in the Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway