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

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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