Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Alternative spellings: Lembulus, Nuculana (Lembulus)
Parent taxon: Leda according to Cossmann and Pissarro 1904
See also Huber 2010, Marasti 1973, Sepkoski 2002 and Wienrich 1999
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 gabbii, 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, Crassoleda crassatelloides, Leda borsoni, Leda trumani, Leda semistriata, Leda leia, Leda renevieri, Leda reussi, Leda houstonia, Leda praeradiata, Leda calcarensis, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda doris, Leda elliptica, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda coelatoides, Leda (Leda), Leda ozarkola, Leda glabra, Leda minuta, Leda (Spinula), Leda catasarca, Leda vaticani, Leda claviformis, Leda wissmanniana, Leda transversa, Leda lacryma, Leda decorata, Leda pistorupes, Leda carolinensis, Leda obolella, Leda caudata, Leda cochlearella, Leda semenoides, Leda radiata, Leda protexta, Leda becki, Leda whitfieldi, Leda gabrielis, Leda dijki, Leda schiavi, Leda minuta, Leda lincolnensis, Leda rangei, Leda alkiensis, Leda magnopsis, Leda opulenta, Leda subtrigona, Leda sulcellata, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda plana, Leda semipolita, Leda striatella, Leda barranca, Leda distincta, Leda subquadrata, Leda projecta, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda ingens, Leda zitteli, Leda wautubbeana, Leda nitida, Leda kittensis, Leda scutula, Leda coelata, Leda crassiparva, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda deffneri, Leda discors, Leda pygmaea, Leda excavata, Leda zelima, Leda scalata, Leda magna, Leda bavarica, Leda parkei, Leda stewardi, Leda vanuxemi, Leda striatula
Subtaxa: Lembulus translucida Nuculana (Lembulus) gemmulata Nuculana (Lembulus) lamellata
Distribution:
• Miocene of Austria (1 collection), Germany (2), Italy (1)
• Cretaceous of United States (2: California)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence