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Nuculoidea ✝
Description | Nuculoidea is a superfamily of bivalves. It belongs to the order Nuculida. It comprises one living family, Nuculidae and one extinct family Praenuculidae. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuculoidea, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source Data |
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Rank | genus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Nuculida : Nuculidae : Nuculoidea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Nuculida : Nuculidae : Nuculoidea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Scientific Name | Nuculoidea H.S.Williams & Breger, 1916 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Name Published In | Prof. Pap. U.S. Geol. Surv., No. 89 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opinions (PBDB) |
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Status (PBDB) | extinct | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 450 - 444 Ma Paleozoic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Recorded Appearance | 161 - 151 Ma Jurassic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Environment | coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic (based on Nuculidae) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Motility | facultatively mobile (based on Nuculidae) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vision | blind (based on Bivalvia) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Diet | deposit feeder, suspension feeder (based on Nuculidae) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ontogeny | accretion (based on Nuculidae) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taphonomy | aragonite,thin,minor ribbing (based on Nuculidae) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuculoidea |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Nuculoidea bellatula species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Nuculoidea corbuliformis ✝ species | listed (PBDB) | 138 | 403 Ma Early/Lower Devonian | 161 Ma Jurassic | |
Nuculoidea cordata species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Nuculoidea gibbosa species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Nuculoidea minuta species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Nuculoidea opima ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
Nuculoidea pinguis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Nuculoidea trigonale species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Nuculoidea yongfuensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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1916 | Nuculoidea Williams and Berger p. 173 |
1969 | Nuculoidea Cox et al. p. N231 |
1980 | Nuculoidea Vokes p. 2 |
2002 | Nuculoidea Sepkoski, Jr. |
2006 | Nuculoidea Mikkelsen |
References
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!