Nuculana coelatella (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Belongs to Nuculana according to M. A. Kosnik 2002

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

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (6: Alabama, Virginia collections)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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