Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Alternative spellings: Lembulus, Nuculana (Lembulus)
Parent taxon: Leda according to Cossmann and Pissarro 1904
See also Huber 2010, Marasti 1973, Sepkoski 2002 and Wienrich 1999
Sister taxa: Nuculana (Borissia), Nuculana (Costanuculana), Nuculana (Dacryomya), Nuculana (Nuculana), Nuculana (Politoleda), Nuculana (Praesaccella), Nuculana (Scaeoleda), Nuculana (Tenuileda), Nuculana (Thestyleda), Nuculana acuta, Nuculana acutilineata, Nuculana akidota, Nuculana alpina, Nuculana andrewi, Nuculana antarctirostrata, Nuculana asiatica, Nuculana biangulata, Nuculana chapmani, Nuculana coelatella, Nuculana concentrica, Nuculana cowlitzensis, Nuculana crassiparva, Nuculana cultellus, Nuculana cuneata, Nuculana curvirostris, Nuculana decora, Nuculana dewalquei, Nuculana doris, Nuculana elmana, Nuculana emarginata, Nuculana etheridgei, Nuculana excavata, Nuculana fluvilutea, Nuculana forcarti, Nuculana gnomon, Nuculana gracillima, Nuculana grasslei, Nuculana jamaicensis, Nuculana konishii, Nuculana liciata, Nuculana longifrons, Nuculana mariae, Nuculana miaocunensis, Nuculana minima, Nuculana minuta, Nuculana moriyai, Nuculana multilineata, Nuculana oxia, Nuculana oxyrhyncha, Nuculana parkei, Nuculana parva, Nuculana penita, Nuculana pernula, Nuculana posterolaevia, Nuculana probellula, Nuculana redondoensis, Nuculana rostellata, Nuculana rostratruncata, Nuculana semen, Nuculana semicrenulata, Nuculana smithvillensis, Nuculana socialis, Nuculana spheniopsis, Nuculana sphenopsis, Nuculana thompsoni, Nuculana timorensis, Nuculana triangulata, Nuculana trivitate, Nuculana trumani, Nuculana undulostriata, Nuculana verrilliana, Nuculana vexillata, Nuculana virgo, Nuculana vitrea, Nuculana waterhousei, Nuculana wautebbeana, Nuculana wautubbeana, Nuculana waynensis, Nuculana whitmani, Nuculana willamettensis, Nuculana willetti, Nuculana zieteni, Leda radiata, Leda (Leda), Leda coelatoides, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda rangei, Leda renevieri, Leda magnopsis, Leda lacryma, Leda willamettensis, Leda houstonia, Leda carolinensis, Leda zitteli, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda gabrielis, Leda barranca, Leda scutula, Leda semenoides, Leda calcarensis, Leda polynominata, Leda minuta, Leda scalata, Leda kittensis, Leda distincta, Leda ingens, Leda coelata, Leda subtrigona, Leda becki, Leda dijki, Leda cochlearella, Leda wautubbeana, Leda alkiensis, Leda discors, Leda crassiparva, Leda vanuxemi, Leda (Spinula), Leda ozarkola, Leda sulcellata, Leda semipolita, Leda vaticani, Leda obolella, Leda nitida, Leda minuta, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda catasarca, Leda parkei, Leda truncata, Leda doris, Leda subquadrata, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda longifrons, Leda bavarica, Leda schiavi, Leda striatula, Leda zelima, Leda decorata, Leda deffneri, Leda glabra, Leda reussi, Leda excavata, Leda whitfieldi, Leda pistorupes, Leda leia, Leda praeradiata, Leda stewardi, Leda elliptica, Leda trumani, Leda semistriata, Leda pygmaea, Leda opulenta, Leda caudata, Leda striatella, Leda plana, Leda borsoni, Leda transversa, Leda wissmanniana, Leda projecta, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda claviformis, Leda magna, Crassoleda crassatelloides
Subtaxa: Lembulus translucidus Nuculana (Lembulus) gemmulata Nuculana (Lembulus) lamellata
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Austria (1 collection), Germany (2), Italy (1)
• Cretaceous of United States (2: California)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence