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

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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