Leda sulcellata Wissmann 1841 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Alternative combination: Nucula sulcellata

Full reference: H. L. Wissmann. 1841. Taxonomic names, in Beiträge zur Geognosie und Petrefacten-Kunde des südöstlichen Tirols vorzüglich der Schichten von St. Cassian. Beiträge zur Petrefacten-Kunde 4:1-152

Belongs to Leda according to A. Bittner 1895

See also Laube 1865 and Wissmann 1841

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 gabbii, Nuculana gnomon, Nuculana gracillima, Nuculana grasslei, Nuculana jamaicensis, Nuculana konishii, Nuculana liciata, Nuculana mariae, Nuculana miaocunensis, Nuculana minima, Nuculana minuta, Nuculana moriyai, Nuculana multilineata, Nuculana oxia, Nuculana oxyrhyncha, Nuculana parkei, Nuculana parva, 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 willetti, Nuculana williamettensis, Nuculana zieteni, Leda decorata, Leda catasarca, Leda magna, Leda coelata, Leda becki, Leda nitida, Leda renevieri, Leda obolella, Leda deffneri, Leda discors, Leda calcarensis, Leda semistriata, Leda plana, Leda crassiparva, Leda minuta, Leda vanuxemi, Leda transversa, Leda excavata, Leda caudata, Leda trumani, Leda distincta, Leda lacryma, Leda doris, Leda striatula, Leda cochlearella, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda scutula, Leda alkiensis, Leda stewardi, Leda coelatoides, Leda zelima, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda (Spinula), Leda leia, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda gabrielis, Leda pygmaea, Leda semenoides, Leda scalata, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda (Leda), Leda reussi, Leda ingens, Leda parkei, Leda carolinensis, Leda opulenta, Leda bavarica, Leda (Lembulus), Leda claviformis, Leda vaticani, Leda whitfieldi, Leda magnopsis, Leda schiavi, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda ozarkola, Leda rangei, Leda elliptica, Leda dijki, Leda houstonia, Leda kittensis, Leda barranca, Leda projecta, Leda wissmanniana, Leda minuta, Leda wautubbeana, Leda semipolita, Leda radiata, Leda zitteli, Leda borsoni, Leda glabra, Leda subtrigona, Leda praeradiata, Leda lincolnensis, Leda striatella, Leda subquadrata, Leda pistorupes, Leda protexta, Crassoleda crassatelloides

Type specimen: Its type locality is St. Cassian (Munster coll), which is in a Julian carbonate limestone in the Cassian Formation of Italy.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of Italy (2 collections), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (2)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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