Nuculana amygdaloides Sowerby 1827 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Alternative combination: Nucula amygdaloides

Belongs to Nuculana according to K. I. Schnetler and C. Heilmann-Clausen 2011

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

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Eocene of Denmark (1 collection), the United Kingdom (3)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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