Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nucularcidae

Alternative combination: Ctenodonta lorrainensis

Synonym: Ctenodonta borealis Foerste 1914

Full reference: A. F. Foerste. 1914. Notes on the Lorraine faunas of New York and the Province of Quebec. Bulletin of the Scientific Laboratories of Denison University 17(1):247-328

Belongs to Nucularca according to J., Jr. Pojeta and C. A. Stott 2007

See also Foerste 1914, Foerste 1924 and Ruedemann 1926

Sister taxa: Nucularca cingulata, Nucularca gorensis, Nucularca pectunculoides

Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at near Worthville, Lorraine Fm. (Ordovician of New York)

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