Nuculopsis girtyi
UNB-2018-0450Fossils » 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)
Specimen with both the left and right valves preserved. Faint growth lines are visible. Lunule and hinge ligament are visible. Small, triangular umbo. Rounded ventral margin that slightly elongates towards the posterior end. Triangular/rounded dorsal margin.
Specifications
| Object name | Nuculopsis girtyi |
|---|---|
| ID | UNB-2018-0450 |
| 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 | 1 |
| 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