Nuculavus arcuata Kues 1991 (nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae

Full reference: B. S. Kues. 1991. Some pelecypods and scaphopods from the Lower Wolfcampian (basal Permian) Laborcita Formation. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 42:231-242

Belongs to Nuculavus according to B. S. Kues 1991

Sister taxa: Nuculavus bangarraensis, Nuculavus levatiformis, Nuculavus menuda, Nuculavus okawensis, Nuculavus terminalis

Type specimen: UNM 11230, a shell. Its type locality is UNM 1320, Tularosa clay pit, which is in a Gzhelian marine shale in the Laborcita Formation of New Mexico.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of United States (3: New Mexico collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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