Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Alternative combination: Nucula cooperi
Full reference: R. E. Dickerson. 1913. Fauna of the Eocene at Marysville Buttes, California. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 7(12):257-298
Belongs to Nucula (Nucula) according to E. J. Moore 1983
See also Dickerson 1913
Sister taxa: Nucula (Nucula) archiaci, Nucula (Nucula) bidorsata, Nucula (Nucula) cahuitensis, Nucula (Nucula) capayensis, Nucula (Nucula) cromata, Nucula (Nucula) declivis, Nucula (Nucula) donaciformis, Nucula (Nucula) fragilis, Nucula (Nucula) hanleyi, Nucula (Nucula) magnifica, Nucula (Nucula) mariae, Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis, Nucula (Nucula) mediavia, Nucula (Nucula) mirada, Nucula (Nucula) mixta, Nucula (Nucula) nitidula, Nucula (Nucula) nitidulaformis, Nucula (Nucula) nucleus, Nucula (Nucula) ovula, Nucula (Nucula) profundorum, Nucula (Nucula) proxima, Nucula (Nucula) schencki, Nucula (Nucula) sericea, Nucula (Nucula) smithvillensis, Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis, Nucula (Nucula) sulcata, Nucula (Nucula) tenuisculpta, Nucula (Nucula) trigonula, Nucula (Nucula) vieta, Nucula (Nucula) vitis, Nucula (Nucula) zophos, Nucula (Nucula) zwierzyckii
Type specimen: Its type locality is UCMP loc1853, Marysville Buttes, which is in a Ypresian marine horizon in the Capay Formation of California.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (1 collection), United States (6: California)
• Paleocene of the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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