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

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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