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

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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