†family Praenuculidae McAlester 1969 (clam)
Parent taxon: Nuculoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Cardiolariidae, Nucularcidae, Nuculidae
Subtaxa: Afganodesma, Concavodonta, Concavodontinae, Eritropis, Fidera, Habonucula, Homilodonta, Ledopsis, Nuculodonta, Palaeoconcha, Palaeoconchiella, Praenucula, Praenuculinae, Pseudoledopsis, Pseudonucula, Similodonta, Smilodonta, Tironucula
Type: Praenucula
Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal deposit feeder