Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Nuculanidae

Full reference: A. A. Olsson. 1930. Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 3, Eocene Mollusca. Bulletins of American Paleontology 17(62):1-164

Belongs to Leda according to A. A. Olsson 1930

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Talara Shale, Talara Fm - Quebrada Barrancas, which is in a Bartonian offshore shale in the Talara Formation of Peru

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Talara Shale, Talara Fm - Quebrada Barrancas

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