Nucinella Wood 1851 ...

Genus Nucinella Wood, 1851 Type species. Pleurodon ovalis Wood, 1840; Neogene, Pliocene; Suffolk, England. Diagnosis. Nucinellids with external ligament. Remarks. Of the two genera described for the Nucinellidae, Huxleyia has a mostly internal ligament set in a sunken resilifer, whereas Nucinella ha...

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Main Authors: Foster, William J., Danise, Silvia, Twitchett, Richard J.
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2016
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Solemyida
Nucinellidae
Nucinella
Silvia
Svalbard
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10883091
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10883091
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Summary:Genus Nucinella Wood, 1851 Type species. Pleurodon ovalis Wood, 1840; Neogene, Pliocene; Suffolk, England. Diagnosis. Nucinellids with external ligament. Remarks. Of the two genera described for the Nucinellidae, Huxleyia has a mostly internal ligament set in a sunken resilifer, whereas Nucinella has an external ligament. The specimens described herein have an opisthodetic or amphidetic ligament and so are assigned to Nucinella. ... : Published as part of Foster, William J., Danise, Silvia & Twitchett, Richard J., 2017, A silicified Early Triassic marine assemblage from Svalbard, pp. 851-877 in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15 (10) on page 855, DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2016.1245680, http://zenodo.org/record/10883052 ...

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