Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Alternative combination: Jupiteria leachi

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) kapua, Nuculana (Jupiteria) karaka, Nuculana (Jupiteria) kouhaiensis, Nuculana (Jupiteria) nugax, Nuculana (Jupiteria) penderi, Nuculana (Jupiteria) prisca, Nuculana (Jupiteria) totangiensis, Nuculana (Jupiteria) uawa, Epacroleda epacris

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at S136/f498 - Rifle Butts Fm, Target Gully (Miocene of New Zealand)

Show more details

Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.