Adrana lanceolata Sowerby 1817 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Alternative combinations: Leda lanceolata, Nucula lanceolata

Belongs to Adrana according to W. P. Woodring 1973

See also Wood 1850

Sister taxa: Adrana aegra, Adrana agronomica, Adrana aldrichiana, Adrana dalliana, Adrana electa, Adrana ensinoides, Adrana exoptata, Adrana newcombi, Adrana quitanensis, Adrana sowerbyana, Adrana stena

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Bawdsey, Suffolk [Red Crag] (Pliocene of the United Kingdom)

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