Nuculopsis girtyi Schenck 1934 (nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae

Invalid subtaxa: Nucula ventricosa Hall 1858 [replaced name], Nuculopsis ventricosa Hall 1858 [replaced name]

Full reference: H. G. Schenck. 1934. Classification of nuculid pelecypods. Musée Royal d’Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, Bulletin 10(20):1-78

Belongs to Nuculopsis according to T. E. Yancey 1978

See also Girty 1915, Hall 1858, Hoare 1961, Kues et al. 2002 and Schenck 1934

Sister taxa: Nuculopsis (Nuculopsis), Nuculopsis alta, Nuculopsis anthraconeiloides, Nuculopsis beyrichi, Nuculopsis cornutus, Nuculopsis croneisi, Nuculopsis darlingensis, Nuculopsis elongata, Nuculopsis fujianensis, Nuculopsis glendonensis, Nuculopsis glenparkensis, Nuculopsis houghtoni, Nuculopsis imperta, Nuculopsis leiyangensis, Nuculopsis lipoensis, Nuculopsis montpelierensis, Nuculopsis oviformis, Nuculopsis pidhensis, Nuculopsis poposiensis, Nuculopsis rectangula, Nuculopsis salebrosus, Nuculopsis setorymensis, Nuculopsis shumardana, Nuculopsis shumardensis, Nuculopsis triangularis, Nuculopsis trivialis, Nuculopsis wewokana, Nuculopsis wymmensis, Nuculopsis yangtzeensis, Nuculopsis yuani

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Pakistan (1 collection), United States (4: Nevada)

• Virgilian of United States (33: Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas)

• Desmoinesian of United States (18: Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma)

• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1), United States (13: Kentucky, Maryland, New Mexico, New mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas)

Total: 70 collections including 71 occurrences

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