Bivalvia - Nuculida - Praenuculidae
Parent taxon: Nuculoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bengtson et al. 1990, Bouchet et al. 2010, Cox et al. 1969, Fang 2006, Fang and Cope 2004, Harrison and Harrison 1975, Hayami and Kase 1977, Morris and Fortey 1976, Nevesskaja 2009 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Arcodonta Bicrenucula Concavodontinae Costaledopsis Fidera Habonucula Homilodonta Ledopsis Nuculodonta Palaeoconchiella Paulinea Pensarnia Praenucula Praenuculinae Pseudoledopsis Pseudonucula Smilodonta Synek Tironucula
Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of North Atlantic (1 collection)
• Jurassic of India (1)
• Permian of Australia (2)
• Devonian of Germany (1), New Zealand (1)
• Silurian of Argentina (2), China (1), Sweden (6), the United Kingdom (5), United States (1: Ohio)
• Dobrotivian of Czechia (1), France (1), Morocco (1), Portugal (3), Spain (7)
• Letna of Czechia (1)
• Whitlandian of the United Kingdom (3)
• Arenig of France (4), Morocco (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (3), Australia (3), Canada (5: Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (1), Czechia (16), France (6), Morocco (7), Norway (2), Portugal (1), South Africa (1), Spain (7), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (15), United States (9: Iowa, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania and Virginia, Virginia, Wisconsin)
Total: 122 collections including 155 occurrences