Nuculopsis girtyi
UNB-2018-0439Fossils » Eukaryote » Animalia » Mollusca » Bivalvia
Description
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Protobranchia
Order: Nuculida
Family: Nuculidae
Genus: Nuculopsis (Girty, 1912)
Species: Nuculopsis girtyi (Schenck, 1934)
Five specimen with both the right and left valves preserved. The largest specimen is missing part of the right valve near the ventral and anterior margin. Faint growth lines and posterior ridge. Rounded, elongated ventral margin towards the posterior end. Rounded/triangular dorsal margin. Lunule and hinge ligament are preserved.
Specifications
| Object name | Nuculopsis girtyi |
|---|---|
| ID | UNB-2018-0439 |
| Legal status | Permanent collection |
| Category | Fossil |
| Classification | Domain: Eukaryote Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Bivalvia |
| Composition | Calcium carbonate |
| Age | Eon: Phanerozoic Era: Paleozoic Period: Carboniferous Subperiod: Pennsylvanian Epoch: Upper Pennsylvanian Age: Virgilian |
| Numeric age | 303 Mya |
| Origin | Coleman County, Texas, U.S.A. |
| Pieces | 5 |
| Partial | No |
| Measurements |
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Map of Origin
Publications
- H. G. Schenck. 1934. Classification of nuculid pelecypods. Musée Royal d’Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, Bulletin 10(20):1-78
- G. H. Girty. 1912. On some new genera and species of Pennsylvanian fossils from the Wewoka Formation of Oklahoma. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 21(2):119-156
- J. Hall and F. B. Meek. 1855. Descriptions of New Species of Fossils, from the Cretaceous Formations of Nebraska, with Observations upon Baculites ovatus and B. compressus, and the Progressive Development of the Septa in Baculites, Ammonites, and Scaphites. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 5(2):379-411