Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Full reference: T. W. Stanton. 1895. Contributions to the Cretaceous paleontology of the Pacific coast. : The fauna of the Knoxville. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 133:1-132

Belongs to Leda according to T. W. Stanton 1895

See also Anderson 1938

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

Type specimen: USNM 23049. Its type locality is Northwest of Stephenson Place, Cold Ford of Cottonwood Creek, which is in a Hauterivian/Barremian basinal (siliceous) mudstone/sandstone in the Stony Creek Formation of California.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution:

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