Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Alternative combinations: Nucula magnifica mauricensis, Nucula mauricensis
Belongs to Nucula (Nucula) according to K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann 1965
See also Gardner 1945, Kosnik 2002 and Price and Palmer 1928
Sister taxa: Nucula (Nucula) archiaci, Nucula (Nucula) bidorsata, Nucula (Nucula) cahuitensis, Nucula (Nucula) capayensis, Nucula (Nucula) cooperi, Nucula (Nucula) cromata, Nucula (Nucula) declivis, Nucula (Nucula) donaciformis, Nucula (Nucula) fragilis, Nucula (Nucula) hanleyi, Nucula (Nucula) magnifica, Nucula (Nucula) mariae, Nucula (Nucula) mediavia, Nucula (Nucula) mirada, Nucula (Nucula) mixta, Nucula (Nucula) nitidula, Nucula (Nucula) nitidulaformis, Nucula (Nucula) nucleus, Nucula (Nucula) ovula, Nucula (Nucula) profundorum, Nucula (Nucula) proxima, Nucula (Nucula) schencki, Nucula (Nucula) sericea, Nucula (Nucula) smithvillensis, Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis, Nucula (Nucula) sulcata, Nucula (Nucula) tenuisculpta, Nucula (Nucula) trigonula, Nucula (Nucula) vieta, Nucula (Nucula) vitis, Nucula (Nucula) zophos, Nucula (Nucula) zwierzyckii
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Mexico (4 collections), United States (65: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas)
Total: 69 collections including 70 occurrences
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