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 S. M. Parfrey 1988
See also Campbell 1953, Fletcher 1945, Waterhouse 1964 and Waterhouse 1987
Sister taxa: Glyptoleda (Menucula), Glyptoleda borealica, Glyptoleda coleyi, Glyptoleda flexuosa, Glyptoleda intricata, Glyptoleda javesi, Glyptoleda parenica, Glyptoleda reidi, Glyptoleda simplicata
Type specimen: AM F41405. Its type locality is Southern plunge of Serecold Structure, N 265E of Ingelara, which is in a Wuchiapingian marine siliciclastic in the Ingelara Formation of Australia.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (12 collections), New Zealand (1)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
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