Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculanidae
Belongs to Nuculana according to M. A. Kosnik 2002
Sister taxa: Nuculana (Borissia), Nuculana (Costanuculana), Nuculana (Costelloleda), Nuculana (Dacryomya), Nuculana (Nuculana), Nuculana (Politoleda), Nuculana (Praesaccella), Nuculana (Scaeoleda), Nuculana (Tenuileda), Nuculana (Thestyleda), Nuculana acuta, Nuculana acutilineata, Nuculana akidota, Nuculana alpina, Nuculana amygdaloides, 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 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 ingens, Leda longifrons, Leda wissmanniana, Leda obolella, Leda barranca, Leda houstonia, Leda semenoides, Leda vaticani, Leda magnopsis, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda doris, Leda sulcellata, Leda vanuxemi, Leda borsoni, Leda schiavi, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda leia, Leda kittensis, Leda caudata, Leda striatella, Leda pistorupes, Leda elliptica, Leda subquadrata, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda minuta, Leda rangei, Leda opulenta, Leda calcarensis, Leda gabrielis, Leda polynominata, Leda dijki, Leda zelima, Leda excavata, Leda ozarkola, Leda reussi, Leda renevieri, Leda becki, Leda radiata, Leda plana, Leda distincta, Leda scalata, Leda parkei, Leda lacryma, Leda carolinensis, Leda coelatoides, Leda (Spinula), Leda subtrigonalis, Leda cochlearella, Leda semistriata, Leda scutula, Leda decorata, Leda catasarca, Leda (Lembulus), Leda willamettensis, Leda coelata, Leda alkiensis, Leda nitida, Leda truncata, Leda zitteli, Leda deffneri, Leda pygmaea, Leda minuta, Leda (Leda), Leda trumani, Leda stewardi, Leda magna, Leda bavarica, Leda praeradiata, Leda projecta, Leda striatula, Leda claviformis, Leda wautubbeana, Leda semipolita, Leda discors, Leda subtrigona, Leda whitfieldi, Leda glabra, Leda transversa, Leda crassiparva, Leda haunsbergensis, Crassoleda crassatelloides
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (2: Mississippi collections)
• Paleocene of the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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