Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Alternative combination: Nucula calcarensis

Full reference: T. A. Conrad. 1848. Observations on the Eocene formations, and descriptions of one hundred and five new fossils from that period, from the vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi; with an appendix. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 3:280-299

Belongs to Leda according to G. D. Harris 1919

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

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Vicksburg (Oligocene of Mississippi)

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