Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Full reference: N. I. Kurushin. 1985. Description of bivalves, in Triasovye brakhiopody i dvustvorchatye mollyuski severa sredney Sibiri. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Sibirskoe Otdelenie Trudy Instituta Geologii I Geofiziki 633:39-111
Belongs to Palaeonucula according to A. S. Dagis et al. 1996
See also Kurushin 1985
Sister taxa: Nucula (Palaeonucula) cuneiformis, Nucula (Palaeonucula) putiensis, Nuculopsis (Palaeonucula) waltoni, Palaeonucula aldanensis, Palaeonucula biacuta, Palaeonucula hammeri, Palaeonucula lunulata, Palaeonucula misolensis, Palaeonucula navis, Palaeonucula qingyanensis, Palaeonucula qujiangensis, Palaeonucula strigilata, Palaeonucula subobliqua, Palaeonucula subrotundata, Palaeonucula tulongensis
Type specimen: IGiG 753/60. Its type locality is Nyykaabyt River, outcrop 41, layer 4, Lower Olenek river basin, which is in a Spathian marine siliciclastic in the Ysmanakh Formation of the Russian Federation.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of the Russian Federation (10 collections)
Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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