Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculanidae
Alternative combination: Nucula mariae
Belongs to Nuculana according to Woods 1899
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 amygdaloides, 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 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 gabrielis, Leda nitida, Leda willamettensis, Leda reussi, Leda zelima, Leda scalata, Leda borsoni, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda dijki, Leda glabra, Leda longifrons, Leda rangei, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda stewardi, Leda subquadrata, Leda kittensis, Leda cochlearella, Leda magnopsis, Leda lacryma, Leda magna, Leda transversa, Leda (Spinula), Leda wissmanniana, Leda opulenta, Leda distincta, Leda crassiparva, Leda ozarkola, Leda catasarca, Leda elliptica, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda zitteli, Leda striatula, Leda becki, Leda sulcellata, Leda semenoides, Leda whitfieldi, Leda coelatoides, Leda praeradiata, Leda obolella, Leda striatella, Leda semipolita, Leda barranca, Leda schiavi, Leda ingens, Leda (Leda), Leda renevieri, Leda deffneri, Leda minuta, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda pygmaea, Leda (Lembulus), Leda vaticani, Leda calcarensis, Leda caudata, Leda minuta, Leda projecta, Leda plana, Leda claviformis, Leda alkiensis, Leda semistriata, Leda scutula, Leda wautubbeana, Leda vanuxemi, Leda radiata, Leda carolinensis, Leda discors, Leda trumani, Leda leia, Leda houstonia, Leda decorata, Leda excavata, Leda doris, Leda bavarica, Leda pistorupes, Leda polynominata, Leda parkei, Leda subtrigona, Leda truncata, Leda coelata
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Brazil (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of Egypt (1), Switzerland (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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