Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Full reference: S. Kiel and J. L. Goedert. 2007. New mollusks associated with biogenic substrates in Cenozoic deepâwater sediments of Washington State. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52(1):41-52
Belongs to Nuculana according to S. Kiel and J. L. Goedert 2007
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 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 parkei, Nuculana parva, Nuculana penita, Nuculana pernula, 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 becki, Leda barranca, Leda catasarca, Leda pygmaea, Leda excavata, Leda semipolita, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda renevieri, Leda vanuxemi, Leda distincta, Leda dijki, Leda ingens, Leda bavarica, Leda subtrigona, Leda schiavi, Leda discors, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda plana, Leda zelima, Leda (Lembulus), Leda ozarkola, Leda truncata, Leda opulenta, Leda scutula, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda decorata, Leda parkei, Leda crassiparva, Leda transversa, Leda nitida, Leda magna, Leda deffneri, Leda claviformis, Leda praeradiata, Leda coelata, Leda cochlearella, Leda whitfieldi, Leda pistorupes, Leda zitteli, Leda vaticani, Leda borsoni, Leda rangei, Leda calcarensis, Leda reussi, Leda scalata, Leda striatula, Leda kittensis, Leda obolella, Leda lacryma, Leda gabrielis, Leda semenoides, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda trumani, Leda wautubbeana, Leda glabra, Leda minuta, Leda doris, Leda carolinensis, Leda longifrons, Leda alkiensis, Leda willamettensis, Leda (Leda), Leda coelatoides, Leda stewardi, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda elliptica, Leda houstonia, Leda sulcellata, Leda projecta, Leda radiata, Leda semistriata, Leda minuta, Leda polynominata, Leda (Spinula), Leda caudata, Leda wissmanniana, Leda subquadrata, Leda striatella, Leda magnopsis, Leda leia
Type specimen: LACMIP 12310. Its type locality is Shipwreck Point, LACMIP 8233, which is in an Oligocene deep-water limestone in the Makah Formation of Washington.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (4: Washington collections)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Washington)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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