Leda wissmanniana Bittner 1895 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Full reference: A. Bittner. 1895. Revision der Lamellibranchiaten von St. Cassian. Abhandlungen der kaiserlich-koniglichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 18(1):1-236

Belongs to Leda according to A. Bittner 1895

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is St. Cassian (K.K. Geol Reichsanstalt coll), which is in a Julian carbonate limestone in the Cassian Formation of Italy.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at St. Cassian (K.K. Geol Reichsanstalt coll)

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