Nuculana biangulata Easton 1962 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Full reference: W. H. Easton. 1962. Carboniferous formations and faunas of central Montana. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 348:1-126

Belongs to Nuculana according to W. H. Easton 1962

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Cameron Creek 'carbonate' fauna, Cameron Creek Fm., which is in a Chesterian shallow subtidal limestone in the Cameron Creek Formation of Montana

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Cameron Creek 'carbonate' fauna, Cameron Creek Fm.

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