Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nucularcidae
Alternative combinations: Ctenodonta pectunculoides, Tellinomya pectunculoides
Full reference: J. Hall. 1872. Descriptions of new species of fossils from the Hudson River Group, in the vicinity of Cincinnati, Ohio. Annual report on the New York State Museum of Natural History by the Regents of the Unviersity of the State of New York 24:225-232
Belongs to Nucularca according to J., Jr. Pojeta and C. A. Stott 2007
See also Foerste 1924, Hall 1872 and Ulrich 1894
Sister taxa: Nucularca cingulata, Nucularca gorensis, Nucularca lorrainensis
Type specimen: USNM 47056, a shell
Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Ordovician of United States (4: Kentucky, Maryland, New York, Tennessee collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
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