Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Alternative combinations: Nucula (Nucula) spheniopsis, Nucula spheniopsis, Nucula sphenopsis
Belongs to Nucula (Nucula) according to W. P. Woodring 1973
See also Gardner 1945, Kosnik 2002 and Palmer and Brann 1965
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) mauricensis, 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) 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:
• Oligocene of Panama (2 collections)
• Eocene of Mexico (1), United States (44: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Paleocene to Eocene of the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 48 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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