Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculanidae

Alternative combination: Calorhadia parkei

Belongs to Nuculana according to F. E. Turner 1938

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

Type specimen: CAS 782, a shell. Its type locality is CAS loc. 244, Live Oak Canyon, which is in an Eocene marginal marine sandstone/shale in the Tejon Formation of California.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at USGS Cenozoic M4642 Liveoak Canyon

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