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

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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