Bivalvia - Nuculida - Praenuculidae
Alternative combinations: Ctenodonta applanans, Nucula applanans
Synonym: Praenucula sharpei Babin and Gutiérrez-Marco 1991
Full reference: J. Barrande. 1881. Système Silurien de Centre de la Bohême. Volume VI: Acéphales. Système Silurien de Centre de la Bohême. Volume VI: Acéphales 1-342
Belongs to Praenucula according to M. Polechová 2013
See also Babin and Gutiérrez-Marco 1991, Barrande 1881 and Pfab 1934
Sister taxa: Praenucula abrupta, Praenucula albertina, Praenucula bohemica, Praenucula costae, Praenucula dispar, Praenucula faba, Praenucula menapiensis
Type specimens:
- Praenucula applanans: NM L 27163 (Internal mould of the shell with conjoined valves). Its type locality is Osek, which is in a Sarka offshore shale in the Sarka Formation of the Czech Republic.
- Praenucula sharpei: RA-I 2148jOR., a shell (Internal mould of a right valve showing the dentition). Its type locality is Cacemia beds, Navalpino, which is in an Oretanian transition zone/lower shoreface shale in the Navatrasierra Shale Formation of Spain.
Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Ordovician of the Czech Republic (3 collections), Morocco (1), Spain (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
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