Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Full reference: J. M. Dickins. 1963. Permian pelecypods and gastropods from western Australia. Bulletin of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics 63:1-203
Belongs to Nuculopsis according to T. E. Yancey 1978
See also Dickins 1957 and Gu et al. 1976
Sister taxa: Nuculopsis (Nuculopsis), Nuculopsis alta, Nuculopsis anthraconeiloides, Nuculopsis beyrichi, Nuculopsis cornutus, Nuculopsis croneisi, 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 triangularis, Nuculopsis trivialis, Nuculopsis wewokana, Nuculopsis wymmensis, Nuculopsis yangtzeensis, Nuculopsis yuani
Type specimen: CPC 3859, a valve (Right valve internal mold). Its type locality is BMR IR20, Carynginia Gully, Irwin River Area, which is in a Sakmarian coastal siliciclastic in the Fossil Cliff Formation of Australia.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (5 collections), China (6), United States (1: Nevada)
Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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