Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Alternative combinations: Nucula abrupta, Nuculana abrupta
Full reference: J. D. Dana. 1847. Descriptions of fossil shells of the collections of the exploring expedition under the command of Charles Wilkes, USN, obtained in Australia, from the lower layers of the coal formation in Illawarra, and from a deposit probably of nearly the same age at Harper's Hill, Valley of the Hunter. American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series 4:151-160
Belongs to Polidevcia according to J. B. Waterhouse 1988
See also Dana 1847, Dana 1849 and Fletcher 1945
Sister taxa: Polidevcia aequilata, Polidevcia antequadrata, Polidevcia arata, Polidevcia arctura, Polidevcia bellistriata, Polidevcia bicarinata, Polidevcia browni, Polidevcia cryptica, Polidevcia flexuosa, Polidevcia kasanensis, Polidevcia kolyvanica, Polidevcia lunulata, Polidevcia lyonsensis, Polidevcia magna, Polidevcia nodulosa, Polidevcia obesa, Polidevcia ovata, Polidevcia sharmani, Polidevcia stevensiana, Polidevcia thomasi, Polidevcia tulcumbensis, Polidevcia vorgaschorica, Polidevcia zabaikalica
Type specimen: USNM 3640. Its type locality is Wollongong Point, Illawarra (USNM coll), which is in a Wordian coastal siliciclastic in the Gerringong Formation of Australia.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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