Palaeoconcha Miller 1889 (clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculida - Praenuculidae

Parent taxon: Praenuculidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Cox et al. 1969, Harrison and Harrison 1975, Hayami and Kase 1977 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Arcodonta, Bicrenucula, Concavodontinae, Costaledopsis, Fidera, Habonucula, Homilodonta, Ledopsis, Nuculodonta, Palaeoconchiella, Paulinea, Pensarnia, Praenucula, Praenuculinae, Pseudoledopsis, Pseudonucula, Similodonta, Smilodonta, Synek, Tironucula

Subtaxa: Palaeoconcha faberi Palaeoconcha ohioensis Palaeoconcha samenoha Palaeoconcha subsymmetrica

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Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of the Czech Republic (1 collection)

• Silurian of United States (1: Ohio)

• Ordovician of Argentina (1), North Korea (1), South Korea (1), United States (7: Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky)

Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence

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