Tentaculita

Tentaculita Temporal range: 485–165Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Early Ordovician to Middle Jurassic (Vinn 2010)
Tentaculitids from the Devonian of Maryland.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca (?)
Class:	†Tentaculita Boucek 1964
Orders
†Chonioconarida †Cornulitida †Dacryoconarida †Microconchida †Tentaculitida †Trypanoporida

Tentaculita is an extinct class of uncertain placement ranging from the Early Ordovician to the Middle Jurassic. They were suspension feeders with a near worldwide distribution. For a more thorough discussion, see Tentaculites

References

• Farsan, N. M. (1994). Tentaculiten: Ontogenese, Systematik, Phylogenese, Biostratonomie und Morphologie. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 547: 1-128.
• Vinn, O. (2010). "Adaptive strategies in the evolution of encrusting tentaculitoid tubeworms". Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 292: 211–221. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.03.046. Retrieved 2014-01-11. 
• Vinn, O.; Zatoń, M. (2012). "Phenetic phylogenetics of tentaculitoids — extinct problematic calcareous tube-forming organisms". GFF 134: 145–156. doi:10.1080/11035897.2012.669788. Retrieved 2014-06-11. 

Further reading

• The Paleontology Database