Nuculana zieteni Brauns 1871 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Alternative combination: Leda zieteni

Belongs to Nuculana according to Troedsson 1951

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

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Denmark (8 collections), France (3), Greenland (7), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 19 collections each including a single occurrence

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