Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae

Full reference: E. Gliozzi and A. Malatesta. 1983. I molluschi del Paleocene di Baixa Chinhauanine nel bacino del Rio Massintonto (Maputo - Mozambico). Geologica Romana 22:85-145

Belongs to Nucula (Leionucula) according to E. Gliozzi and A. Malatesta 1983

Sister taxa: Leionucula albensis, Leionucula astricta, Leionucula ehrlichi, Leionucula gabbi, Leionucula laevigata, Leionucula palaioanaxea, Leionucula punjabensis, Leionucula rakhiensis, Leionucula superba, Nucula (Leionucula) barrosi, Nucula (Leionucula) birchi, Nucula (Leionucula) grandis, Nucula (Leionucula) hunickeni, 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

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Jablonski & Raup Locality 199 (Cretaceous of Mozambique)

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