Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nucularcidae
Alternative combinations: Ctenodonta cingulata, Tellinomya cingulata
Full reference: E. O. Ulrich. 1879. Descriptions of new genera and species of fossils from the Lower Silurian about Cincinnati. Journal of Cincinnati Society of Natural History 2(1):8-30
Belongs to Nucularca according to J., Jr. Pojeta and C. A. Stott 2007
See also Foerste 1924, Ulrich 1879 and Ulrich 1893
Sister taxa: Nucularca gorensis, Nucularca lorrainensis, Nucularca pectunculoides
Type specimen: USNM 46126, a shell
Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Ordovician of Canada (1: Ontario collection), United States (4: Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
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