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