Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Alternative combination: Austrotindaria kapua
Full reference: J. A. Marwick. 1931. The Tertiary Mollusca of the Gisborne District. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 13:1-177
Belongs to Nuculana (Jupiteria) according to J. A. Marwick 1931
See also Fleming 1966
Sister taxa: Jupiteria (Surojupiteria), Jupiteria aipeia, Jupiteria cellulita, Jupiteria concava, Jupiteria solida, Jupiteria subtumida, Leda (Jupiteria) bowdenensis, Leda (Jupiteria) duerdeni, Nuculana (Jupiteria) asiatica, Nuculana (Jupiteria) delliana, Nuculana (Jupiteria) karaka, Nuculana (Jupiteria) kouhaiensis, Nuculana (Jupiteria) leachi, Nuculana (Jupiteria) nugax, Nuculana (Jupiteria) penderi, Nuculana (Jupiteria) prisca, Nuculana (Jupiteria) totangiensis, Nuculana (Jupiteria) uawa, Epacroleda epacris
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Nuculana (Jupiteria) kapua in the database
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