Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Full reference: H. O. Fletcher. 1945. A new genus Glyptoleda and a revision of the genus Nuculana from the Permian of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 21(6):293-312
Belongs to Glyptoleda according to V. A. Muromtseva and V. A. Guskov 1984
See also Fletcher 1945 and Muromtseva 1981
Sister taxa: Glyptoleda (Menucula), Glyptoleda borealica, Glyptoleda flexuosa, Glyptoleda glomerata, Glyptoleda intricata, Glyptoleda javesi, Glyptoleda parenica, Glyptoleda reidi, Glyptoleda simplicata
Type specimen: UWA J35. Its type locality is Barrabiddy Creek, upstream of fence between Barrabiddy and Weir Paddocks, which is in a Kungurian marine siliciclastic in the Cundlego Formation of Australia.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (3 collections), the Russian Federation (4)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
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