Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Full reference: F. E. Eames. 1951. A Contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: B. Description of the Lamellibranchia from standard sections in the Rakni Nala and Zinda Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 235:311-482
Belongs to Leionucula according to F. E. Eames 1951
Sister taxa: Leionucula albensis, Leionucula astricta, Leionucula ehrlichi, Leionucula gabbi, Leionucula laevigata, Leionucula palaioanaxea, Leionucula punjabensis, Leionucula superba, Nucula (Leionucula) barrosi, Nucula (Leionucula) birchi, Nucula (Leionucula) grandis, Nucula (Leionucula) hunickeni, Nucula (Leionucula) mozambensis, Nucula (Leionucula) nova, Nucula (Leionucula) palmeri, Nucula (Leionucula) patagonica, Nucula (Leionucula) postangulata, Nucula (Leionucula) subaraucana, Nucula (Leionucula) suboblonga, Nucula (Leionucula) vokesi, Nucula cunifrons, Ennucula (Lissanucula) hilli
Type specimen: L. 79825, a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.1986, Rakhi Nala, which is in a Bartonian marine shale in the Drazinda Formation of Pakistan.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Leionucula rakhiensis in the database
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