Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculanidae

Alternative combination: Leda cowlitzensis

Full reference: C. E. Weaver and K. Van Winkle Palmer. 1922. Fauna from the Eocene of Washington. University of Washington Publications in Geology 1(3):1-56

Belongs to Nuculana according to F. E. Turner 1938

See also Weaver and Van Winkle Palmer 1922

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

Type specimen: UW (unknown number), a shell. Its type locality is UW 343, which is in a Bartonian marine horizon in the Cowlitz Formation of Washington.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

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