Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae

Alternative combination: Nucula (Ennucula) birchi

Full reference: A. M. Keen. 1943. New mollusks from the Round Mountain Silt (Temblor) Miocene of California. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 10(2):25-60

Belongs to Nucula (Leionucula) according to E. J. Moore 1983

See also Keen 1943

Sister taxa: Leionucula albensis, Leionucula astricta, Leionucula ehrlichi, Leionucula gabbi, Leionucula laevigata, Leionucula palaioanaxea, Leionucula proava, Leionucula punjabensis, Leionucula rakhiensis, Leionucula superba, Nucula (Leionucula) barrosi, Nucula (Leionucula) grandis, Nucula (Leionucula) hunickeni, Nucula (Leionucula) mozambensis, Nucula (Leionucula) nova, Nucula (Leionucula) palmeri, Nucula (Leionucula) patagonica, Nucula (Leionucula) postangulata, Nucula (Leionucula) subaraucana, Nucula (Leionucula) suboblonga, Nucula (Leionucula) vokesi, Nucula cunifrons, Ennucula (Lissanucula) hilli

Type specimen: LSJU 7527. Its type locality is LSJU loc. 2121 [Round Mountain Silt], which is in a Langhian marine siltstone in the Round Mountain Formation of California.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at LSJU loc. 2121 [Round Mountain Silt]

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