Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Full reference: G. W. Kendrick and A. V. Vartak. 2007. Middle Cretaceous (Cenomanian) bivalves from the Karai Formation, Uttattur Group, of the Cauvery Basin, south India. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 72:1-101
Belongs to Nuculana (Nuculana) according to G. W. Kendrick and A. V. Vartak 2007
Sister taxa: Nuculana (Nuculana) arenicola, Nuculana (Nuculana) confusa, Nuculana (Nuculana) elongorostrata, Nuculana (Nuculana) extenuata, Nuculana (Nuculana) fossa, Nuculana (Nuculana) hamata, Nuculana (Nuculana) leonina, Nuculana (Nuculana) minuta, Nuculana (Nuculana) naibandensis, Nuculana (Nuculana) navisa, Nuculana (Nuculana) senni, Nuculana (Nuculana) tenuisulcata
Type specimen: ARI G2761/7, a shell. Its type locality is Odiyam locality 2, which is in a Cenomanian marine sandstone in the Karai Formation of India.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of India (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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