Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Synonyms: Cleidophorus Hall 1847, Cucullella McCoy 1851, Nuculites (Cleidophorus) Hall 1847, Pyrenomaeus Hall 1852, Pyrenomoeus Hall 1852
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
Parent taxon: Cucullellinae according to D. M. C. Machado et al. 2021
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Bradshaw 1999, Bretsky and Bretsky 1977, Cox et al. 1969, Harrison and Harrison 1975, Hayami and Kase 1977, Pojeta 1971, Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977, Sepkoski 2002, Toni 1975 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Cleidophorus catherinae Cleidophorus delawarensis Cleidophorus eductus Cleidophorus hollebeni Cleidophorus perdubius Cleidophorus planulata Cleidophorus striatulus Cleidophorus striatulus Cleidophorus trapezoidalis Cucullella antiqua Nuculites (Gonionuculites) Nuculites ichikawai Nuculites kimuari Nuculites neglectus Nuculites oblongatus Nuculites planulatus Nuculites suboblongatus Nuculites wattii Pyrenomoeus cuneatus
Type: Nuculites oblongatus
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Italy (2 collections), Japan (2), Pakistan (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Carboniferous of United States (2: Virginia)
• Devonian of Antarctica (5), Argentina (3), Australia (5), Brazil (23), Canada (3: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Quebec), China (11), Colombia (1), France (1), Germany (5), Ghana (1), Libya (3), Morocco (4), New Zealand (3), Poland (7), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (14), Spain (3), Turkey (1), United States (166: Alaska, Florida, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania), Uruguay (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1), Poland (2), Spain (1)
• Silurian of Argentina (6), Australia (2), Bolivia (1), Canada (14: Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec), France (1), Lithuania (1), Paraguay (2), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (21), United States (24: New York, Ohio)
• Arenig of France (2)
• Ordovician of Australia (2), Canada (6: Ontario, Quebec), China (1), the Czech Republic (2), Morocco (1), Norway (3), South Korea (1), the United Kingdom (12), United States (44: Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia)
• Tremadoc of China (1)
Total: 426 collections including 494 occurrences
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