Nuculites wattii Tate 1896 (clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Cucullellidae

Alternative combination: Isoarca wattii

Full reference: R. Tate. 1896. Palaeontology. Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to central Australia 3:97-116

Belongs to Nuculites according to J. Pojeta and J. Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977

See also Tate 1896

Sister taxa: Nuculites (Gonionuculites), Nuculites ichikawai, Nuculites kimuari, Nuculites neglectus, Nuculites oblongatus, Nuculites planulatus, Nuculites suboblongatus, Cucullella antiqua, Cleidophorus delawarensis, Cleidophorus eductus, Cleidophorus hollebeni, Cleidophorus striatulus, Cleidophorus trapezoidalis, Cleidophorus catherinae, Cleidophorus striatulus, Cleidophorus perdubius, Cleidophorus planulata, Pyrenomoeus cuneatus

Type specimen: SAM T 1220a, a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Nuculites wattii in the database

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