Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Cucullellidae
Alternative combinations: Cleidophorus planulatus, Nuculites (Cleidophorus) planulatus
Full reference: T. A. Conrad. 1841. Fifth annual report on the paleontology of the state of New York. New York Geological Survey, Annual Report 5:25-57
Belongs to Nuculites according to R. T. Toni 1975
See also Barrande 1881, Conrad 1841 and Hall 1847
Sister taxa: Nuculites (Gonionuculites), Nuculites argentinum, Nuculites ichikawai, Nuculites kimuari, Nuculites neglectus, Nuculites oblongatus, Nuculites primus, Nuculites stonyensis, Nuculites suboblongatus, Nuculites wattii, Cleidophorus catherinae, Cleidophorus hollebeni, Cleidophorus trapezoidalis, Cleidophorus perdubius, Cleidophorus delawarensis, Cleidophorus striatulus, Cleidophorus striatulus, Cleidophorus eductus, Cleidophorus planulata, Pyrenomoeus cuneatus, Cucullella antiqua
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Ordovician of Canada (1: Ontario collection), Czechia (1), Norway (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Pennsylvania)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
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