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Nuttallia

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Description

Nuttallia is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Psammobiidae.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuttallia, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2286811	https://www.gbif.org/species/2286811
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	17988	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=17988

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Cardiida : Psammobiidae : Nuttallia

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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
-	Eubivalvia	Carter 2011
subclass	Autobranchia
infraclass	Heteroconchia
-	Cardiomorphi	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardioni	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardiidia	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardiata	Ferussac 1822
superorder	Cardiiformii	Ferussac 1822
order	Cardiida	Ferussac 1822
suborder	Cardiidina	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardioidei	Ferussac 1822
superfamily	Tellinoidea
family	Psammobiidae	Fleming 1828
genus	Nuttallia	Dall 1898

Scientific Name

Nuttallia Dall, 1898

Name Published In

Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1898

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Nuttallia	subgenus	belongs to Sanguinolaria	stated without evidence	Durham, 1944
Nuttallia	genus	belongs to Psammobiidae	stated with evidence	Coan et al., 2000
Nuttallia	genus	belongs to Veneroida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (40%)

First Recorded Appearance

66.0 - 56.0 Ma
Paleocene

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Psammobiidae)

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

deposit feeder (based on Psammobiidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Bivalvia)

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/Nuttallia

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Nuttallia ezonis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nuttallia jamesi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nuttallia japonica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nuttallia nuttallii species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Nuttallia obscura species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nuttallia obscurata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nuttallia olivacea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nuttallia petri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nuttallia salina ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Nuttallia toulai ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Sanguinolaria (Nuttallia) townsendensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Sanguinolaria toulai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Nanhaia S.Morris & N.Morris, 1983	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Cardiida : Psammobiidae : *Nanhaia*
Hainania Scarlato, 1965	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Cardiida : Psammobiidae : *Hainania*
Nuttalia Fischer, 1899	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Cardiida : Psammobiidae : *Nuttalia*
Nuttalina Clark, 1925	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Cardiida : Psammobiidae : *Nuttalina*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1900	Nuttallia Dall
1944	Sanguinolaria (Nuttallia) Durham p. 150
1965	Hainania Scarlato
2000	Nuttallia Coan et al. p. 426
2002	Nuttallia Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Durham J. W. (1944) Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 27, 101 -212

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

Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1898 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

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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