Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Alternative spellings: Nucula (Palaeonucula), Nuculoma (Palaeonucula), Nuculopsis (Palaeonucula)
Parent taxon: Nuculidae according to A. Nützel and A. Kaim 2014
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Hayami and Kase 1977, Marwick 1953, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Sepkoski 2002, Stilwell et al. 2004 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Acila, Austronucula, Brevinucula, Condylonucula, Deshayesii, Economolopsis, Ennucula, Lacia, Leionucula, Manchurinucula, Microgloma, Neonucula, Notonucula, Nucula, Nuculanella, Nuculavus, Nuculinae, Nuculoidea, Nuculoma, Nuculominae, Nuculopsis, Palaeonuculinae, Pectinucula, Phymodonucula, Ptychostolis, Similiconcha, Similoconcha, Sinonucula, Skyphoconcha, Trigonucula
Subtaxa: Nucula (Palaeonucula) cuneiformis Nucula (Palaeonucula) putiensis Nuculopsis (Palaeonucula) waltoni Palaeonucula aldanensis Palaeonucula biacuta Palaeonucula hammeri Palaeonucula lunulata Palaeonucula misolensis Palaeonucula navis Palaeonucula prisca Palaeonucula qingyanensis Palaeonucula qujiangensis Palaeonucula strigilata Palaeonucula subobliqua Palaeonucula subrotundata Palaeonucula tulongensis
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (3 collections), Japan (3), Lebanon (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
• Heterian of New Zealand (1)
• Temaikan of New Zealand (2)
• Jurassic of Algeria (1), Canada (10: British Columbia), Chile (1), China (3), Ethiopia (2), France (10), Germany (36), India (123), Japan (6), Kenya (1), Luxembourg (1), Madagascar (12), Morocco (10), New Zealand (5), Poland (5), Portugal (8), Romania (2), Saudi Arabia (22), Serbia (1), Somalia (7), Spain (9), Switzerland (23), Tunisia (12), Türkiye (2), the United Kingdom (57), Vietnam (1), Yemen (14)
• Triassic of Chile (1), China (28), Germany (5), Hungary (4), Indonesia (1), Iran (10), Italy (44), Japan (1), the Russian Federation (20), Spain (1), the United Arab Emirates (2), United States (10: Nevada), Vietnam (1)
• Permian of China (1), Mexico (2), the Russian Federation (3)
• Carboniferous of United States (3: Montana, Ohio)
Total: 532 collections including 629 occurrences
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