Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Synonyms: Crassoleda Savitskii 1969, Leda Schumacher 1817, Nucula (Leda) Schumacher 1817
Parent taxon: Nuculanidae according to T. J. Wild and J. D. Stilwell 2016
See also Böhm and Weisfermel 1913, Bouchet et al. 2010, Broglio Loriga et al. 1999, Camacho et al. 2000, Coan et al. 2000, Dockery 1982, DuBar 1958, Durham 1944, Eames 1951, El Qot 2006, Faustman 1964, Frassinetti and Covacevich 1995, Gardner 1945, Gazdzicki and Pugaczewska 1984, Givens and Kennedy 1976, Glenn 1904, Grant, IV and Gale 1931, Hertlein and Grant 1972, Kiel 2006, Kiel and Goedert 2007, Krumbeck 1913, Lamprell and Healy 1998, Lintz 1958, Marasti 1973, Maxwell 1992, Moore 1969, Moore 1983, Nagao 1928, Olsson 1931, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Sepkoski 2002, Squires 1984, Squires 1999, Stanton 1895, Stilwell et al. 2004, Todd 2001, Turner 1938, Vokes 1980, Ward and Blackwelder 1987, Wienrich 1999 and Woods 1922
Sister taxa: Acilana, Acutispinula, Anthracoleda, Australoportlandia, Bathyspinula, Calorhadia, Costatoleda, Costelloleda, Dacromya, Ezonuculana, Indonuculana, Ledella, Ledellinae, Litorhadia, Mesosaccella, Multidentata, Nuculana gabbii, Nuculaninae, Orthoyoldia, Phestioidea, Poroleda, Poroledidae, Praeportlandia, Propeleda, Saccella, Scissuladrana, Spineilo, Veteranellinae, Clidophorus
Subtaxa: Crassoleda crassatelloides Leda (Leda) Leda (Lembulus) Leda (Spinula) Leda alkiensis Leda barranca Leda bavarica Leda becki Leda borsoni Leda calcarensis Leda carolinensis Leda catasarca Leda caudata Leda claviformis Leda cochlearella Leda coelata Leda coelatoides Leda crassiparva Leda decorata Leda deffneri Leda dijki Leda discors Leda distincta Leda doris Leda elliptica Leda excavata Leda gabrielis Leda glabra Leda haunsbergensis Leda houstonia Leda ingens Leda kittensis Leda lacryma Leda leia Leda magna Leda magnopsis Leda minuta Leda minuta Leda nitida Leda obolella Leda opulenta Leda oxyrhyncha Leda ozarkola Leda parkei Leda pistorupes Leda plana Leda polynominata Leda praeradiata Leda projecta Leda protexta Leda pygmaea Leda radiata Leda rangei Leda renevieri Leda reussi Leda scalata Leda schiavi Leda scutula Leda semenoides Leda semipolita Leda semistriata Leda siegsdorfensis Leda stewardi Leda striatella Leda striatula Leda subquadrata Leda subtrigona Leda subtrigonalis Leda sulcellata Leda transversa Leda trumani Leda vanuxemi Leda vaticani Leda wautubbeana Leda whitfieldi Leda wissmanniana Leda zelima Leda zitteli Nucula (Leda) subzelima 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 lincolnensis 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
Type: Arca rostrata
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (26: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario collections), Chile (1), Djibouti (1), Ecuador (2), Greenland (6), Iceland (1), India (2), Ireland (1), Italy (1), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (4), Peru (2), South Africa (2), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (73: Alaska, California, Florida, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), Malaysia (7), United States (4: California, Florida)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (3), Chile (1), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (2), Haiti (1), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (3), Jamaica (3), Japan (9), Pakistan (3), the Russian Federation (2), South Africa (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (32: Alaska, California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Vanuatu (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), United States (3: Alaska)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (7), Austria (2), Bulgaria (1), Chile (3), Colombia (14), Cyprus (1), Denmark (1), Ecuador (13), France (2), Germany (9), India (6), Indonesia (3), Iran (1), Iraq (1), Italy (3), Japan (4), Mexico (1), Morocco (3), New Zealand (3), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (21), Slovakia (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (45: Alaska, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Washington), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Haiti (1), Hungary (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (4), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (7), United States (42: Alaska, Mississippi, Washington)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Washington)
• Eocene of Angola (4), Argentina (3), Australia (4), Barbados (4), Brazil (1), Egypt (2), France (2), Hungary (1), Indonesia (1), Mexico (2), Namibia (1), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (1), Peru (3), the Russian Federation (5), the United Kingdom (12), United States (155: Alabama, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington)
• Paleocene to Eocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Tertiary of United States (1: California)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (46), Austria (1), Denmark (6), Egypt (3), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (2), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (3), United States (89: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (10), Australia (2), Cameroon (1), Chile (1), China (3), Colombia (1), Ecuador (1), Egypt (11), France (3), Germany (8), Greenland (1), India (4), Indian Ocean (1), Israel (1), Italy (1), Japan (8), Jordan (1), Kazakhstan (1), Libya (2), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Mozambique (1), New Zealand (9), Nigeria (1), Poland (16), the Russian Federation (5), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (12), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (1), USSR (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (312: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Heterian of New Zealand (2)
• Temaikan of New Zealand (2)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (1)
• Jurassic of Argentina (8), Canada (7: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (10), China (3), Denmark (8), Egypt (1), France (6), Germany (14), Greenland (16), India (97), Japan (8), Kenya (3), Mexico (1), New Zealand (4), Peru (1), Poland (1), Portugal (3), Saudi Arabia (5), Somalia (1), Spain (14), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (7), Switzerland (21), Tunisia (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (43), United States (1: California)
• Triassic to Jurassic of Singapore (1), United States (1: Alaska)
• Triassic of Austria (29), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), Canada (1: British Columbia), Chile (1), China (7), Egypt (1), Germany (10), Hungary (3), Indonesia (5), Iran (10), Italy (27), Japan (3), Kazakhstan (2), Mexico (2), New Zealand (3), Papua New Guinea (2), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (8), Slovenia (1), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (39: Nevada, Oregon, nevada), Vietnam (5)
• Permian of Australia (5), the Russian Federation (4), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (2: Arizona, Texas)
• Namurian of Australia (2)
• Carboniferous of Australia (2), Canada (2: Alberta, Yukon), the United Kingdom (10), United States (19: Alaska, Arizona, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia)
• Devonian of Australia (3), Brazil (4), Canada (3: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Quebec), China (2), Germany (1), Ghana (1), Poland (1), South Africa (6), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (10: Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania), Uruguay (1)
• Silurian of Canada (2: Ontario), China (1), Sweden (1), United States (2: New York)
• Dobrotivian of France (1)
• Arenig of France (3)
• Ordovician of Portugal (1)
Total: 1768 collections including 2206 occurrences
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