Leda zitteli Böhm 1891 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Full reference: J. Böhm. 1891. Die Kreidebildungen des Fürbergs und Sulzbergs bei Siegsdorf in Oberbayern. Palaeontographica 38:1-106

Belongs to Leda according to P. Oppenheim 1902

See also Böhm 1891

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 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 haunsbergensis, Leda deffneri, Leda decorata, Leda plana, Leda ingens, Leda discors, Leda kittensis, Leda protexta, Leda dijki, Leda vaticani, Leda reussi, Leda semenoides, Leda obolella, Leda radiata, Leda minuta, Leda renevieri, Leda caudata, Leda stewardi, Leda alkiensis, Leda striatella, Leda (Lembulus), Leda cochlearella, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda barranca, Leda transversa, Leda (Leda), Leda trumani, Leda nitida, Leda ozarkola, Leda bavarica, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda glabra, Leda (Spinula), Leda subtrigonalis, Leda projecta, Leda pygmaea, Leda magna, Leda semistriata, Leda magnopsis, Leda carolinensis, Leda becki, Leda elliptica, Leda doris, Leda excavata, Leda distincta, Leda wautubbeana, Leda zelima, Leda opulenta, Leda minuta, Leda calcarensis, Leda scalata, Leda schiavi, Leda striatula, Leda polynominata, Leda praeradiata, Leda vanuxemi, Leda houstonia, Leda sulcellata, Leda subquadrata, Leda crassiparva, Leda gabrielis, Leda claviformis, Leda parkei, Leda catasarca, Leda subtrigona, Leda pistorupes, Leda lincolnensis, Leda lacryma, Leda coelata, Leda semipolita, Leda wissmanniana, Leda whitfieldi, Leda rangei, Leda leia, Leda scutula, Leda coelatoides, Leda borsoni, Crassoleda crassatelloides

Type specimen: Its type locality is Gerhardtsreiter Graben, which is in a Maastrichtian carbonate marl in the Gerhardsreit Formation of Germany

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Eocene of Egypt (1 collection)

• Cretaceous of Germany (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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