Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculanidae
Alternative spelling: Costelloleda
Parent taxon: Nuculana according to E. J. Moore 1983
See also Clavijo et al. 2005, Damborenea 2019, Huber 2010 and Todd 2001
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 amygdaloides, 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 claviformis, Leda subquadrata, Leda bavarica, Leda minuta, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda ozarkola, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda striatula, Leda coelata, Leda semistriata, Leda alkiensis, Leda magna, Leda discors, Leda stewardi, Leda excavata, Leda cochlearella, Leda vaticani, Leda pistorupes, Leda wissmanniana, Leda wautubbeana, Leda minuta, Leda houstonia, Leda plana, Leda rangei, Leda nitida, Leda pygmaea, Leda barranca, Leda distincta, Leda scutula, Leda projecta, Leda caudata, Leda transversa, Leda (Spinula), Leda deffneri, Leda longifrons, Leda (Leda), Leda whitfieldi, Leda vanuxemi, Leda willamettensis, Leda parkei, Leda trumani, Leda carolinensis, Leda sulcellata, Leda dijki, Leda leia, Leda zitteli, Leda gabrielis, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda glabra, Leda semenoides, Leda zelima, Leda doris, Leda calcarensis, Leda crassiparva, Leda praeradiata, Leda ingens, Leda borsoni, Leda radiata, Leda opulenta, Leda semipolita, Leda kittensis, Leda subtrigona, Leda catasarca, Leda reussi, Leda schiavi, Leda obolella, Leda coelatoides, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda polynominata, Leda elliptica, Leda truncata, Leda decorata, Leda (Lembulus), Leda haunsbergensis, Leda striatella, Leda magnopsis, Leda renevieri, Leda scalata, Leda lacryma, Leda becki
Subtaxa: Nuculana (Costelloleda) costellata Nuculana (Costelloleda) powersi Nuculana (Costelloleda) whitensis
Type: Nucula costellata
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (1 collection), Costa Rica (1)
• Pliocene of Panama (5)
• Miocene of Panama (2)
• Paleocene of the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence