Nuculana acutilineata Hybertsen and Kiel 2018 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Full reference: F. Hybertsen and S. Kiel. 2018. A middle Eocene seep deposit with silicified fauna from the Humptulips Formation in western Washington State, USA . Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 63(4):751-768

Belongs to Nuculana according to F. Hybertsen and S. Kiel 2018

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

Type specimen: NRM Mo 185009, a valve (right valve)

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at UWBM B8951 Satsop Weatherwax (Eocene of Washington)

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