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