Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Alternative spelling: Nucula (Nuculopsis)
Full reference: G. H. Girty. 1912. On some new genera and species of Pennsylvanian fossils from the Wewoka Formation of Oklahoma. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 21(2):119-156
Parent taxon: Nuculidae according to M. A. Pagani and S. M. Ferrari 2011
See also Sepkoski 2002, Vokes 1980 and Woodring 1973
Sister taxa: Acila, Austronucula, Brevinucula, Condylonucula, Deshayesii, Economolopsis, Ennucula, Lacia, Leionucula, Manchurinucula, Microgloma, Neonucula, Notonucula, Nucula, Nuculanella, Nuculavus, Nuculinae, Nuculoidea, Nuculoma, Nuculominae, Palaeonucula, Palaeonuculinae, Pectinucula, Phymodonucula, Ptychostolis, Similiconcha, Similoconcha, Sinonucula, Skyphoconcha, Trigonucula
Subtaxa: Nuculopsis (Nuculopsis) Nuculopsis alta Nuculopsis anthraconeiloides Nuculopsis beyrichi Nuculopsis cornutus Nuculopsis croneisi Nuculopsis darlingensis Nuculopsis elongata Nuculopsis fujianensis Nuculopsis girtyi Nuculopsis glendonensis Nuculopsis glenparkensis Nuculopsis houghtoni Nuculopsis imperta Nuculopsis leiyangensis Nuculopsis lipoensis Nuculopsis montpelierensis Nuculopsis oviformis Nuculopsis pidhensis Nuculopsis poposiensis Nuculopsis rectangula Nuculopsis salebrosus Nuculopsis setorymensis Nuculopsis shumardana Nuculopsis shumardensis Nuculopsis triangularis Nuculopsis trivialis Nuculopsis wewokana Nuculopsis wymmensis Nuculopsis yangtzeensis Nuculopsis yuani
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (1 collection)
• Jurassic of Japan (1)
• Triassic of Japan (1), the Russian Federation (2)
• Permian to Triassic of India (1)
• Permian of Australia (11), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (42), Germany (1), Greece (1), India (2), Italy (3), Japan (5), Lithuania (3), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (6), Oman (1), Pakistan (5), the Russian Federation (21), Tunisia (8), United States (48: Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming), Venezuela (1)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (2), Australia (4), Canada (1: Alberta), China (1), Ireland (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (29), United States (126: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming)
• Givetian of Canada (4: Northwest Territories)
• Devonian of Australia (3), Canada (4: Northwest Territories, Nunavut), China (1), Libya (1)
Total: 345 collections including 401 occurrences
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