Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Cucullellidae

Full reference: A. de Gregorio. 1930. Sul Permiano di Sicilia (fossili del calcare con Fusulina di Palazzo Adriano non descritti dal Prof. G. Gemmellaro conservati nel mio privato gabinetto). Annales de Géologie et de Paléontologie 52:1-70

Belongs to Cleidophorus according to C. C. Branson 1948

See also de Gregorio 1930

Sister taxa: Nuculites (Gonionuculites), Nuculites argentinum, Nuculites ichikawai, Nuculites kimuari, Nuculites neglectus, Nuculites oblongatus, Nuculites planulatus, Nuculites primus, Nuculites stonyensis, Nuculites suboblongatus, Nuculites wattii, Pyrenomoeus cuneatus, Cucullella antiqua, Cleidophorus striatulus, Cleidophorus planulata, Cleidophorus trapezoidalis, Cleidophorus delawarensis, Cleidophorus hollebeni, Cleidophorus eductus, Cleidophorus catherinae, Cleidophorus striatulus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Sosio Limestone near Palazzo Adriano (de Gregorio coll), which is in a Wordian carbonate limestone in Italy

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Sosio Limestone near Palazzo Adriano (de Gregorio coll)

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