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 spheniopsis, Nuculana sphenopsis, Nuculana thompsoni, Nuculana timorensis, Nuculana triangulata, Nuculana trivitate, 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 barranca, Leda pistorupes, Leda scalata, Leda calcarensis, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda wissmanniana, Leda distincta, Leda coelata, Leda vaticani, Leda houstonia, Leda decorata, Leda minuta, Leda glabra, Leda cochlearella, Leda obolella, Leda semistriata, Leda semipolita, Leda kittensis, Leda praeradiata, Leda caudata, Leda trumani, Leda polynominata, Leda whitfieldi, Leda vanuxemi, Leda projecta, Leda discors, Leda schiavi, Leda striatella, Leda reussi, Leda elliptica, Leda catasarca, Leda magnopsis, Leda minuta, Leda ingens, Leda nitida, Leda coelatoides, Leda truncata, Leda crassiparva, Leda ozarkola, Leda lacryma, Leda transversa, Leda pygmaea, Leda willamettensis, Leda radiata, Leda striatula, Leda plana, Leda bavarica, Leda semenoides, Leda deffneri, Leda longifrons, Leda gabrielis, Leda dijki, Leda (Leda), Leda subtrigonalis, Leda renevieri, Leda magna, Leda stewardi, Leda (Spinula), Leda parkei, Leda doris, Leda alkiensis, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda opulenta, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda sulcellata, Leda scutula, Leda rangei, Leda subquadrata, Leda zitteli, Leda excavata, Leda becki, Leda carolinensis, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda borsoni, Leda subtrigona, Leda wautubbeana, Leda zelima, Leda leia, Leda claviformis, Leda (Lembulus), Crassoleda crassatelloides
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (9: Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina collections)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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