Nuculites Conrad, 1841
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https://doi.org/ 10.4202/app.00215.2015 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A787E2-FFF0-FFFD-FCF4-FEBC922DFCA0 |
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Felipe |
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Genus Nuculites Conrad, 1841
Type species: Nuculites oblongatus Conrad, 1841 from the Hamilton Group, Devonian, New York State; subsequent designation by Miller (1889).
Stratigraphic and geographic range.―Other palaeotaxodont species assigned to Nuculites have been reported from the Lower Ordovician of France ( Babin 1966), Tasmania ( Corbett and Banks 1974), and South Korea ( Kobayashi 1934), whereas Upper Ordovician species have been reported from Wales, Canada ( Sepkoski 1998) and USA ( Dalve 1948). Depending on taxonomic revisions Nuculites may have the widest cosmopolitan distribution of all taxa studied.
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