Cucullaea Lamarck 1801 (clam)

Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae

Alternative spellings: Arca (Cucullaea), Cucullea, Macrodon (Cucullaea)

Parent taxon: Cucullaeidae according to C. S. Hickman 2021

See also Adegoke 1977, Beu et al. 2012, Bouchet et al. 2010, Broili 1904, Eames 1951, El Qot 2006, Erdmann and Morra 1985, Frassinetti and Covacevich 1999, Lamprell and Healy 1998, Laube 1865, Malumian et al. 1978, Marwick 1960, Maxwell 1992, Mendir et al. 2021, Moore 1983, Nagao 1928, Packard 1922, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Sepkoski 2002, Skwarko 1994, Stilwell 1998, Stilwell et al. 2004, Tashiro 1988, Tashiro and Kozai 1982 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxa: Dicranodonta, Megacucullaea, Noramya, Pseudocucullaea, Tetrarca, Lopatinia

Subtaxa: Arca (Cucullaea) equilateralis Arca (Cucullaea) intermedia Cucullaea (Cucullastis) Cucullaea (Cucullona) Cucullaea (Cyphoxis) Cucullaea (Idonearca) Cucullaea (Latiarca) Cucullaea adelaidensis Cucullaea alta Cucullaea auriculifera Cucullaea chiemiensis Cucullaea chilensis Cucullaea cordiformis Cucullaea corioensis Cucullaea crassatina Cucullaea eichwaldi Cucullaea ellioti Cucullaea equidens Cucullaea erda Cucullaea ewekoroensis Cucullaea farsensis Cucullaea freia Cucullaea gabbi Cucullaea gigantea Cucullaea glabra Cucullaea granulosa Cucullaea haguei Cucullaea harttii Cucullaea increbescens Cucullaea inermis Cucullaea isolda Cucullaea labiata Cucullaea laubei Cucullaea lirata Cucullaea littlei Cucullaea macerata Cucullaea marshalli Cucullaea mathewsonii Cucullaea minchinhamptonensis Cucullaea monodi Cucullaea morani Cucullaea multicostata Cucullaea nipponica Cucullaea obliqua Cucullaea obliqua Cucullaea pachygastris Cucullaea pamotanensis Cucullaea patagonensis Cucullaea perijana Cucullaea ponderosa Cucullaea scrivenori Cucullaea seisiana Cucullaea sindangbaranensis Cucullaea striatiumbonata Cucullaea subglabra Cucullaea transversa Cucullaea transversa Cucullaea tschapitana Cucullaea worthingtoni Cucullea auingeri Cucullea polyglypha Cucullea rugosa Idonearca deatsvillensis Idonearca kingsensis Idonearca murrayi Idonearca powersi

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection), Taiwan (5), Yemen (1)

• Pliocene of Australia (2), India (1), Indonesia (1), Pakistan (3)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Chile (1)

• Miocene to Pleistocene of Argentina (1)

• Miocene of Argentina (12), Australia (11), Chile (9), India (1), Indonesia (4), Iran (1), New Zealand (21), Peru (1), South Africa (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1)

• Oligocene of Argentina (7), Australia (1), New Zealand (21)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Argentina (2)

• Eocene of Antarctica (21), Argentina (3), Australia (3), Chile (1), Egypt (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (15), United States (5: California, Maryland, Virginia)

• Paleocene of Antarctica (17), Argentina (6), Austria (1), Belgium (5), Bulgaria (4), Denmark (7), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (3), Mexico (4), New Zealand (6), Nigeria (1), Poland (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (191: Alabama, California, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia)

• Tertiary of United States (1: California)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (2: New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (1), Algeria (5), Angola (1), Antarctica (14), Argentina (55), Austria (2), Azerbaijan (1), Belgium (1), Brazil (6), Bulgaria (1), Canada (2: British Columbia), Chile (4), Colombia (2), the Congo-Brazzaville (1), Egypt (33), France (6), Germany (8), Greenland (1), Hungary (1), India (1), Italy (3), Japan (31), Libya (2), Mexico (7), Mozambique (3), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (26), Oman (3), Peru (2), Poland (7), the Russian Federation (12), Somalia (1), South Africa (1), Spain (1), Sweden (1), Tanzania (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (2), the United Arab Emirates (2), the United Kingdom (23), United States (372: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming), Venezuela (1), Yemen (1)

• Jurassic of Argentina (22), Chile (16), France (14), Germany (2), Greenland (3), India (4), Japan (2), Kenya (2), New Zealand (2), Poland (1), Portugal (9), Saudi Arabia (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (32), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Tanzania (13), the United Kingdom (35), United States (10: Montana, Utah, Wyoming)

• Triassic to Jurassic of Singapore (1)

• Triassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Italy (5), Singapore (1)

• Devonian of the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 1246 collections including 1371 occurrences

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