Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Full reference: W. P. Woodring. 1925. Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 1: Pelecypods and Scaphopods. Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies

Belongs to Leda (Jupiteria) according to W. P. Woodring 1925

Sister taxa: Jupiteria (Surojupiteria), Jupiteria aipeia, Jupiteria cellulita, Jupiteria concava, Jupiteria solida, Jupiteria subtumida, Leda (Jupiteria) bowdenensis, Nuculana (Jupiteria) asiatica, Nuculana (Jupiteria) delliana, Nuculana (Jupiteria) kapua, Nuculana (Jupiteria) karaka, Nuculana (Jupiteria) kouhaiensis, Nuculana (Jupiteria) leachi, Nuculana (Jupiteria) nugax, Nuculana (Jupiteria) penderi, Nuculana (Jupiteria) prisca, Nuculana (Jupiteria) totangiensis, Nuculana (Jupiteria) uawa, Epacroleda epacris

Type specimen: USNM 352733, a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Bowden Formation (Woodring 1925, 1928 Checklist) (Pliocene of Jamaica)

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