Bivalvia - Nuculida - Praenuculidae

Full reference: J. C. W. Cope. 1996. Early Ordovician (Arenig) bivalves from the Llangynog Inlier, South Wales. Palaeontology 39(4):979-1026

Parent taxon: Praenuculidae according to J. C. W. Cope 1996

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Arcodonta, Bicrenucula, Concavodontinae, Costaledopsis, Fidera, Habonucula, Homilodonta, Ledopsis, Nuculodonta, Palaeoconcha, Palaeoconchiella, Paulinea, Praenucula, Praenuculinae, Pseudoledopsis, Pseudonucula, Similodonta, Smilodonta, Synek, Tironucula

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Dan-Ian-y-Castell Farm, Llangynog (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

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