Bivalvia - Nuculida - Praenuculidae
Parent taxon: Nuculoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bengtson et al. 1990, Bouchet et al. 2010, Cox et al. 1969, Fang 2006, Fang and Cope 2004, Harrison and Harrison 1975, Hayami and Kase 1977, Morris and Fortey 1976, Nevesskaja 2009 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Arcodonta Bicrenucula Concavodontinae Costaledopsis Fidera Habonucula Homilodonta Ledopsis Nuculodonta Palaeoconcha Palaeoconchiella Paulinea Pensarnia Praenucula Praenuculinae Pseudoledopsis Pseudonucula Similodonta Smilodonta Synek Tironucula
Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ireland (1 collection)
• Jurassic of India (1)
• Permian of Australia (2)
• Devonian of the Czech Republic (1), Germany (1), New Zealand (1)
• Silurian of Argentina (2), China (1), Sweden (6), the United Kingdom (6), United States (1: Ohio)
• Dobrotivian of the Czech Republic (1), France (1), Morocco (1), Portugal (3), Spain (7)
• Letna of the Czech Republic (1)
• Fennian of France (1)
• Arenig of France (4), Morocco (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (3), Australia (3), Canada (6: Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (3), the Czech Republic (13), Estonia (1), France (4), Morocco (6), North Korea (1), Norway (5), Portugal (1), South Africa (1), South Korea (1), Spain (7), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (30), United States (42: Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania and Virginia, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa)
• Tremadoc of France (1)
Total: 174 collections including 209 occurrences