Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Parent taxon: Nuculana according to M. Goto 1983
See also Agrawal and Kachhara 1979, Fischer 1969, Hautmann et al. 2015, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Nuculana (Borissia), Nuculana (Costanuculana), 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, Leda barranca, Leda glabra, Leda opulenta, Leda crassiparva, Leda rangei, Leda claviformis, Leda dijki, Leda coelata, Leda wautubbeana, Leda excavata, Leda sulcellata, Leda leia, Leda subquadrata, Leda obolella, Leda discors, Leda truncata, Leda semenoides, Leda transversa, Leda subtrigona, Leda minuta, Leda distincta, Leda magnopsis, Leda vaticani, Leda reussi, Leda kittensis, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda deffneri, Leda elliptica, Leda alkiensis, Leda plana, Leda parkei, Leda longifrons, Leda radiata, Leda (Leda), Leda nitida, Leda scalata, Leda semistriata, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda striatella, Leda pistorupes, Leda renevieri, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda zitteli, Leda coelatoides, Leda scutula, Leda minuta, Leda whitfieldi, Leda schiavi, Leda polynominata, Leda lacryma, Leda willamettensis, Leda calcarensis, Leda praeradiata, Leda vanuxemi, Leda stewardi, Leda (Lembulus), Leda carolinensis, Leda pygmaea, Leda ingens, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda ozarkola, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda doris, Leda striatula, Leda cochlearella, Leda caudata, Leda magna, Leda trumani, Leda decorata, Leda gabrielis, Leda zelima, Leda houstonia, Leda semipolita, Leda catasarca, Leda wissmanniana, Leda (Spinula), Leda projecta, Leda borsoni, Leda bavarica, Leda becki, Crassoleda crassatelloides
Subtaxa: Nuculana (Dacryomya) numismalis
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Canada (1: Northwest Territories collection), Hong Kong (1), Japan (4), the United Kingdom (8)
• Triassic of Japan (1)
Total: 15 collections including 16 occurrences