†family Cucullellidae Fischer 1886 (clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - 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

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Italy (2 collections), Japan (2), Pakistan (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Texas)

• Carboniferous of United States (2: Virginia)

• Devonian of Antarctica (5), Argentina (3), Australia (5), 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), Turkey (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 (1), the Czech Republic (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)

• Tremadoc of China (1)

Total: 426 collections including 494 occurrences

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