Cadulus nutans Böhm 1891 (tusk shell)

Scaphopoda - Gadilida - Gadilidae

Full reference: J. Böhm. 1891. Die Kreidebildungen des Fürbergs und Sulzbergs bei Siegsdorf in Oberbayern. Palaeontographica 38:1-106

Belongs to Cadulus according to J. Böhm 1891

Sister taxa: Cadulus (Cadulus), Cadulus (Platyschides), Cadulus acuminatus, Cadulus bellulus, Cadulus californicus, Cadulus caronensis, Cadulus conradi, Cadulus eliezeri, Cadulus infans, Cadulus jacksonensis, Cadulus juvenis, Cadulus nerta, Cadulus newtonensis, Cadulus nitentior, Cadulus ovulum, Cadulus parianus, Cadulus thallus, Cadulus waynensis, Cadulus yatalensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Höpfling, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian marine horizon in Germany

Ecology: slow-moving shallow infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Höpfling

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