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Nuculoidea corbuliformis

Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae

Taxonomy
Nucula corbuliformis was named by Hall and Whitfield (1869). Its type specimen is NYSM 2847 (9571/5) (lectotype), a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.2680, Zinda Pir, which is in a Ypresian marine shale in the Ghazij Formation of Pakistan.

It was recombined as Nuculoidea corbuliformis by Bailey (1986) and Amler (2004).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1869Nucula corbuliformis Hall and Whitfield p. 2
1872Nucula niotica Hall and Whitfield p. 190
1872Nucula neda Hall and Whitfield p. 191
1889Nucula herzeri Nettelroth p. 221
1890Nucula subtrigona Simpson p. 452 figs. 20(2-3, non 1)
1895Nucula aquisgranensis Beushausen p. 56 figs. pl. 4 f. 25A-C
1925Nucula macrorhyncha Spriestersbach p. 410 figs. pl. 11 f. 5
1942Nucula corbuliformis Stumm figs. pl. 81 f. 28
1986Nuculoidea corbuliformis Bailey p. 1178–1183 figs. 1.1-4, 2.1-11
2004Nuculoidea corbuliformis Amler pp. 157- 158 figs. 3-4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
RankNameAuthor
Eubivalvia
subclassProtobranchia(Pelseneer 1889)
superorderNuculiformiiDall 1889
orderNuculida(Dall 1889)
superfamilyNuculoidea(Gray 1824)
familyNuculidaeGray 1824
genusNuculoideaWilliams and Berger 1916
speciescorbuliformis()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Nuculoidea corbuliformis Hall and Whitfield 1869
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Invalid names: Nucula aquisgranensis Beushausen 1895 [synonym], Nucula herzeri Nettelroth 1889 [synonym], Nucula macrorhyncha Spriestersbach 1925 [synonym], Nucula neda Hall and Whitfield 1872 [synonym], Nucula niotica Hall and Whitfield 1872 [synonym], Nucula subtrigona Simpson 1890 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitef
Entire body: yesf
Adult length: 1.0 to < 10f
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10f
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10f
Thickness: thinf
Folds: nonef
Ribbing: minorf
Spines: nonef
Internal reinforcement: nonef
Ontogeny: accretionf
Environment: coastal, inner shelf, outer shelf, oceanicf
Locomotion: facultatively mobilef
Life habit: infaunalf
Diet: deposit feederf
Diet 2: suspension feederf
Vision: blindc
Created: 2008-11-15 10:09:53
Modified: 2009-08-18 20:13:53
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Mikkelsen and Bieler 2008

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Emsian to the top of the Early/Lower Kimmeridgian or 402.50000 to 150.80000 Ma

Collections (143 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Emsian - Eifelian402.5 - 387.7Russian Federation (Arkhangel'skaya Oblast') Nuculoidea corbuliformis (40708)
Givetian387.7 - 382.7USA (Ohio) Nucula corbuliformis (76557 76564 76565)
Givetian387.7 - 382.7USA (New York) Nucula corbuliformis (10459) Nuculoidea corbuliformis (9356 9357 9361 9362 9363 9364 9366 70108 74984 74985 74995 84470 86229 86235 86242 86250 86318 86326 86335 86339 86385 86386 86642 86643 86644 86645 86646 86647 86649 86652 86655 89655 89658 89665 89675 89678 89683 89690 89692 89694 89695 89696 89705 89709 89710 89715 89716 89720 89722 89729 89731 89740 89741 89747 89750 89751 89753 89754 89755 89757 89759 89760 89762 89765 89766 89767 89769 89770 89772 89775 89777 89778 89779 89791 89800 89801 89802 89804 89807 89815 89886 89890 89891 89894 89895 89896 89901 89915 89921 89924 89927 89935 89942 89955 89958 89962 89964 89986 90843 90844 90845 90866 90867 96341 96342 96344 96356 96358 96359 96363 96364 96365 96373 96375 96379 96381 96382 96383 96384 96385 96386 96387 96388 111424 111624 111627 111634 111638 111640 111828 111830 111834 111835 111842)
Frasnian382.7 - 372.2USA (Pennsylvannia) Nuculoidea corbuliformis (233186)
Frasnian382.7 - 372.2USA (New York) Nuculoidea corbuliformis (3800 233184)
Late/Upper Oxfordian - Early/Lower Kimmeridgian161.2 - 150.8France (Normandy) Nucula subtrigona (23539)