Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Cucullellidae
Synonym: Nuculitidae Bradshaw 1999
Parent taxon: Malletioidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Pseudocyrtodontidae, Strabidae, Tindariidae
Subtaxa: Cucullellinae Palaeoneilinae
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Italy (2 collections), Japan (2), Pakistan (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Carboniferous of United States (2: Virginia)
• Devonian of Antarctica (5), Argentina (3), Australia (5), Bolivia (2), Brazil (23), Canada (3: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Quebec), China (11), Colombia (1), France (1), Germany (5), Ghana (1), Libya (3), Morocco (4), New Zealand (3), Poland (7), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (14), Spain (3), Türkiye (1), United States (166: Alaska, Florida, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania), Uruguay (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1), Poland (2), Spain (1)
• Silurian of Argentina (6), Australia (2), Bolivia (1), Canada (14: Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec), France (1), Lithuania (1), Paraguay (2), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (21), United States (24: New York, Ohio)
• Arenig of France (2)
• Ordovician of Australia (2), Canada (6: Ontario, Quebec), China (4), Czechia (2), Morocco (1), Norway (3), South Korea (1), the United Kingdom (12), United States (44: Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia)
Total: 429 collections including 497 occurrences