Nuculoidea corbuliformis Hall and Whitfield 1869 (nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae

Alternative combination: Nucula corbuliformis

Synonyms: Nucula aquisgranensis Beushausen 1895, Nucula herzeri Nettelroth 1889, Nucula macrorhyncha Spriestersbach 1925, Nucula neda Hall and Whitfield 1872, Nucula niotica Hall and Whitfield 1872, Nucula subtrigona Simpson 1890

Full reference: J. Hall and R. P. Whitfield. 1869. Preliminary notice of the lamellibranchiate shells of the upper Helderberg, Hamilton and Chemung groups, with others from the Waverly sandstones, part 2. 1-80

Belongs to Nuculoidea according to M. R. W. Amler 2004

See also Bailey 1986, Beushausen 1895, Hall and Whitfield 1869, Hall and Whitfield 1872, Nettelroth 1889, Simpson 1890, Spriestersbach 1925 and Stumm 1942

Sister taxa: Nuculoidea lirata, Nuculoidea opima

Type specimens:

  • Nuculoidea corbuliformis: NYSM 2847 (9571/5) (lectotype), a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.2680, Zinda Pir, which is in a Ypresian marine shale in the Ghazij Formation of Pakistan.
  • Nucula aquisgranensis:
  • Nucula herzeri:
  • Nucula macrorhyncha:
  • Nucula neda:
  • Nucula niotica:
  • Nucula subtrigona:

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Jurassic of France (1 collection)

• Devonian of the Russian Federation (1), United States (141: New York, Ohio, Pennsylvannia)

Total: 143 collections each including a single occurrence

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