Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Sareptidae
Alternative combinations: Nucula arctica, Yoldia arctica
Synonyms: Leda truncata Gabb 1864, Nucula (Acila) truncata Gabb 1864, Nucula portlandica Reeve 1855, Nucula truncata Gabb 1864
Belongs to Portlandia according to A. J. W. Hendy et al. 2008
See also Coan et al. 2000, Gabb 1869, Lintz 1958 and Wood 1850
Sister taxa: Portlandia (Portlandia), Portlandia chehalisensis, Portlandia glacialis, Portlandia impressa, Portlandia kakimii, Portlandia laudabilis, Portlandia rosa, Yoldia (Portlandia) cooperii
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (20: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec collections), Greenland (23), Poland (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (3: Maine)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), United States (3: California)
• Cretaceous of Denmark (1), Kazakhstan (1), Mexico (1), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1), United States (2: California)
Total: 67 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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