Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nucinellidae
Full reference: H. E. Vokes. 1966. A new species of the bivalve genus Nucinella from the Eocene of Louisiana. Tulane Studies Geology 5(1):38-40
Belongs to Nucinella according to H. E. Vokes 1985
Sister taxa: Nucinella calabra, Nucinella chipolana, Nucinella cincta, Nucinella dalli, Nucinella dobergensis, Nucinella dumasi, Nucinella giribeti, Nucinella glabra, Nucinella glabrata, Nucinella gunteri, Nucinella hedleyi, Nucinella laevigata, Nucinella liasina, Nucinella maxima, Nucinella microdus, Nucinella miliaris, Nucinella moarianus, Nucinella nakremi, Nucinella oregona, Nucinella ovalina, Nucinella ovalis, Nucinella pissarroi, Nucinella seguenzai, Nucinella serrei, Nucinella svalbardensis, Nucinella taylori, Nucinella viridula, Nucinella woodii, Nuculina pretiosa, Neopleurodon subdolus
Type specimen: PRI 27537, a shell. Its type locality is PRI 2275, which is in a Bartonian marine horizon in the Cook Mountain Formation of Louisiana.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution: found only at PRI 2275
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