Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Full reference: K. S. W. Campbell and B. A. Engel. 1963. The faunas of the Tournaisian Tulcumba Sandstone and its members in the Werrie and Belvue synclines, New South Wales. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 10(1):55-122
Belongs to Nuculopsis according to K. S. W. Campbell and B. A. Engel 1963
Sister taxa: 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 trivialis, Nuculopsis wewokana, Nuculopsis wymmensis, Nuculopsis yangtzeensis, Nuculopsis yuani
Type specimen: F.7313 U.N.E., a shell. Its type locality is L76, Rangari Section, 6.2 km north, 2.5 km east of Kelvin, which is in a Hastarian carbonate limestone in the Rangari limestone Formation of Australia.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Australia (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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