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