Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Alternative combinations: Ctenodonta elliptica, Nucula elliptica
Synonym: Nucula tenuis Klipstein 1843
Belongs to Leda according to G. C. Laube 1865
See also Awad 1945, Bittner 1895, Broili 1904, Damborenea 2012, Frech 1912, Gu et al. 1976, Münster 1841, Paredes et al. 2013, Sha 1995, Waagen 1907, Xu 1978 and Yang et al. 1979
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 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 calcarensis, Leda distincta, Leda decorata, Leda cochlearella, Leda carolinensis, Leda reussi, Leda (Spinula), Leda trumani, Leda scalata, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda sulcellata, Leda (Lembulus), Leda glabra, Leda ozarkola, Leda coelata, Leda vanuxemi, Leda minuta, Leda opulenta, Leda nitida, Leda lacryma, Leda scutula, Leda wissmanniana, Leda ingens, Leda transversa, Leda wautubbeana, Leda leia, Leda striatula, Leda schiavi, Leda subtrigona, Leda caudata, Leda (Leda), Leda semipolita, Leda semenoides, Leda parkei, Leda bavarica, Leda deffneri, Leda semistriata, Leda rangei, Leda coelatoides, Leda becki, Leda dijki, Leda doris, Leda obolella, Leda renevieri, Leda pistorupes, Leda borsoni, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda stewardi, Leda catasarca, Leda striatella, Leda projecta, Leda discors, Leda magna, Leda excavata, Leda houstonia, Leda subquadrata, Leda zelima, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda whitfieldi, Leda zitteli, Leda kittensis, Leda polynominata, Leda pygmaea, Leda vaticani, Leda plana, Leda crassiparva, Leda gabrielis, Leda radiata, Leda barranca, Leda alkiensis, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda claviformis, Leda minuta, Leda praeradiata, Leda willamettensis, Leda magnopsis, Crassoleda crassatelloides
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1 collection)
• Triassic of Egypt (1), Germany (5), Italy (1)
• Silurian of Canada (2: Ontario), United States (2: New York)
Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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