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Dentalium sp.

genus Dentalium Linnaeus, 1758

• Modern species: Silurian - Present (423.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Marine

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca, class Scaphopoda, order Dentaliida, family Dentaliidae

• Distribution
• Permian: Gifu
• Eocene: Saga
• Miocene: Akita, Saitama, Okayama, Hiroshima, Shimane
• Pliocene: Akita, Niigata, Shizuoka
• Pleistocene: Ishikawa, Ibaraki, Chiba, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Aichi
• Holocene: Tokyo, Aichi, Osaka
• Investigation in progress: Nagano, Saitama (Miocene?)

• Subtaxa
• D. akasakensis
• D. buccinulum
• D. neornatum
• D. octangulatum, Octagonal tusk shell
• D. watanabei