Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Alternative combination: Nucula carolinensis

Full reference: T. A. Conrad. 1848. Observations on the Eocene formations, and descriptions of one hundred and five new fossils from that period, from the vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi; with an appendix. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 3:280-299

Belongs to Leda according to G. D. Harris 1919

See also Conrad 1848

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

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Vicksburg (Oligocene of Mississippi)

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