Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Invalid subtaxa: Nucula ventricosa Hall and Meek 1855 [replaced name], Nuculopsis ventricosa Hall and Meek 1855 [replaced name]
Full reference: H. G. Schenck. 1934. Classification of nuculid pelecypods. Musée Royal d’Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, Bulletin 10(20):1-78
Belongs to Nuculopsis according to T. E. Yancey 1978
See also Girty 1915, Hall 1858, Hoare 1961, Kues et al. 2002 and Schenck 1934
Sister taxa: Nuculopsis (Nuculopsis), Nuculopsis alta, Nuculopsis anthraconeiloides, Nuculopsis beyrichi, Nuculopsis cornutus, Nuculopsis croneisi, Nuculopsis darlingensis, Nuculopsis elongata, Nuculopsis fujianensis, 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 United States (1: Nebraska collection)
• Permian of Pakistan (1), United States (4: Nevada)
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1), United States (66: Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas)
Total: 73 collections including 74 occurrences
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