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Nuculaninae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	86017	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=86017

Rank

subfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Nuculanida : Nuculanidae : Nuculaninae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Bivalvia	Linnaeus 1758
order	Protobranchia	Pelseneer 1889
superorder	Nuculaniformii	Carter et al. 2000
order	Nuculanida
superfamily	Nuculanoidea	Adams and Adams 1858
family	Nuculanidae	Adams and Adams 1858
subfamily	Nuculaninae	Adams and Adams 1858

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Nuculaninae	subfamily	belongs to Nuculanidae	stated with evidence	Adams and Adams, 1858
Nuculaninae	subfamily	belongs to Nuculanidae	stated without evidence	Lintz, 1958
Nuculaninae	subfamily	belongs to Nuculanidae	stated with evidence	Stilwell et al., 2004
Nuculaninae	subfamily	belongs to Nuculanidae	stated without evidence	Bouchet et al., 2010
Nuculaninae	subfamily	belongs to Nuculanidae	stated with evidence	Coan and Valentich-Scott, 2012

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

17 (35%)

First Recorded Appearance

306 - 303 Ma
Carboniferous

Environment

coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic (based on Nuculanidae)

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Nuculanidae)

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

deposit feeder, suspension feeder (based on Nuculanidae)

Ontogeny

accretion (based on Nuculanidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite,thin,minor ribbing (based on Nuculanidae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. V. Coan, P. V. Scott, and F. R. Bernard. 2000. Bivalve seashells of western North America. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural history Monographs 2:1-764

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Adrana genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	55	61.7 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Comitileda genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	59.2 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Culunana ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	306 Ma Carboniferous	303 Ma Carboniferous
Jupiteria genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	135	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	0 Ma Extant
Ledina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	56	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	13.8 Ma Miocene
Pseudoportlandia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	9	43.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1858	Nuculaninae Adams and Adams
1958	Nuculaninae Lintz, Jr. p. 106
1979	Adranidae Scarlato and Starobogatov
1992	Nuculaninae Maxwell p. 56
2004	Nuculaninae Stilwell et al. p. 17
2009	Adranidae Nevesskaja
2010	Nuculaninae Bouchet et al.
2012	Nuculaninae Coan and Valentich-Scott p. 57

References

Coan E. V., Scott P. V., et al (2000) Bivalve seashells of western North America, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural history Monographs 2, 1-764

Lintz, Jr. J. (1958) The fauna of the Ames and Brush Creek shales of the Conemaugh Formation of western Maryland, Journal of Paleontology 32 1, 97-112

Maxwell P. A. (1992) Eocene Mollusca from the vicinity of McCulloch's Bridge, Waihao River, South Canterbury, New Zealand: Paleoecology and systematics, New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 65, 1-280

Stilwell J. D., Zinsmeister W. J., et al (2004) Early Paleocene Mollusks of Antarctica: Systematics, Paleoecology and Paleobiogeographic Significance, Bulletins of American Paleontology 367

Nevesskaja L. A. (2009) Principles of Systematics and the System of Bivalves, Paleontological Journal 43 1, 1-11 doi:10.1134/S0031030109010018

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., et al (2010) Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families, Malacologia 52 2, 1-184 doi:10.4002/040.052.0201

Coan E. V., Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve Seashells of Tropical West America. Marine Bivalve Mollusks from Baja California to Northern Peru, Santa Barbara museum of Natural history monographs 6, 1-1258

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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