Nuculites ichikawai Nakazawa and Newell 1968 (clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Cucullellidae

Full reference: K. Nakazawa and N.D. Newell. 1968. Permian bivalves of Japan. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Series of Geology and Mineralogy 35(1):1-108

Belongs to Nuculites according to I. Hayami and T. Kase 1977

Sister taxa: Nuculites (Gonionuculites), Nuculites kimuari, Nuculites neglectus, Nuculites oblongatus, Nuculites planulatus, Nuculites suboblongatus, Nuculites wattii, Cucullella antiqua, Cleidophorus perdubius, Cleidophorus trapezoidalis, Cleidophorus catherinae, Cleidophorus hollebeni, Cleidophorus striatulus, Cleidophorus delawarensis, Cleidophorus planulata, Cleidophorus striatulus, Cleidophorus eductus, Pyrenomoeus cuneatus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Katsura, Kochi Prefecture, which is in a Changhsingian marine sandstone in the Katsura Formation of Japan

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Katsura, Kochi Prefecture

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