Nuculana forcarti Jung 1965 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Full reference: P. Jung. 1965. Miocene Mollusca from the Paraguana Peninsula, Venezuela. Bulletins of American Paleontology 49(223):389-652

Belongs to Nuculana according to P. Jung 1965

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

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Nuculana forcarti in the database

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