Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Alternative spelling: Nucula (Nuculoma)
Parent taxon: Nuculidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Le Renard 1993, Mikkelsen 2006, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Sepkoski 2002 and Wienrich 1999
Sister taxa: Acila, Austronucula, Brevinucula, Condylonucula, Deshayesii, Economolopsis, Ennucula, Lacia, Leionucula, Manchurinucula, Microgloma, Neonucula, Notonucula, Nucula, Nuculanella, Nuculavus, Nuculinae, Nuculoidea, Nuculominae, Nuculopsis, Palaeonucula, Palaeonuculinae, Pectinucula, Phymodonucula, Ptychostolis, Similiconcha, Similoconcha, Sinonucula, Skyphoconcha, Trigonucula
Subtaxa: Nucula (Nuculoma) bisulcata Nuculoma castor Nuculoma tsvetkoviensis Nuculoma variabilis
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Germany (25 collections)
• Oligocene of Hungary (1)
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (4)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), France (1)
• Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (3)
• Jurassic of France (4), Germany (19), Greenland (7), India (58), Madagascar (5), the Russian Federation (11), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (1), Tunisia (2), the United Kingdom (2)
• Triassic of the Russian Federation (2), United States (3: Nevada)
Total: 152 collections including 159 occurrences
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