Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculanidae

Full reference: W. C. Mansfield. 1940. Mollusks of the Chickasawhay Marl. Journal of Paleontology 14(3):171-226

Belongs to Nuculana according to W. C. Mansfield 1940

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

Type specimen: USNM 49508. Its type locality is Taylors Mill Creek (Richards), which is in a Rupelian deep subtidal ramp limestone in the Chickasawhay Formation of Mississippi.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Taylors Mill Creek (Richards)

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