Leda subtrigona Münster 1841 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Alternative combination: Nucula subtrigona

Synonym: Nucula nuda Wissmann 1841

Full reference: G. Münster. 1841. Beiträge zur Geognosie und Petrefacten-Kunde des südöstlichen Tirols vorzüglich der Schichten von St. Cassian. II. Beschreibung und Abbildung der in den Kalkmergelschichten von St. Cassian gefunden Versteinerungen. Beiträge zur Petrefacten-Kunde 4:25-152

Belongs to Leda according to G. D. Harris 1919

See also Conrad 1848, Laube 1865, Münster 1841 and Wissmann 1841

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

Type specimens:

  • Leda subtrigona: Its type locality is St. Cassian (Munster coll), which is in a Julian carbonate limestone in the Cassian Formation of Italy.
  • Nucula nuda: Its type locality is St. Cassian (Munster coll), which is in a Julian carbonate limestone in the Cassian Formation of Italy.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1 collection)

• Triassic of Italy (2)

Total: 3 collections including 4 occurrences

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