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