Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Alternative combination: Arca minuta
Belongs to Nuculana according to H. G. Richards 1962
See also Hendy 2020, Hendy 2021 and Moore 1983
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 forcarti, Nuculana gnomon, Nuculana gracillima, Nuculana grasslei, Nuculana jamaicensis, Nuculana konishii, Nuculana liciata, Nuculana longifrons, Nuculana mariae, Nuculana miaocunensis, Nuculana minima, 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 kittensis, Leda magna, Leda subtrigona, Leda ozarkola, Leda transversa, Leda parkei, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda scutula, Leda alkiensis, Leda deffneri, Leda trumani, Leda plana, Leda praeradiata, Leda cochlearella, Leda nitida, Leda vaticani, Leda truncata, Leda striatella, Leda decorata, Leda zitteli, Leda gabrielis, Leda excavata, Leda (Spinula), Leda haunsbergensis, Leda dijki, Leda doris, Leda coelata, Leda (Lembulus), Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda becki, Leda calcarensis, Leda obolella, Leda (Leda), Leda caudata, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda ingens, Leda claviformis, Leda bavarica, Leda semistriata, Leda subquadrata, Leda striatula, Leda reussi, Leda glabra, Leda sulcellata, Leda renevieri, Leda discors, Leda semipolita, Leda minuta, Leda leia, Leda schiavi, Leda scalata, Leda crassiparva, Leda radiata, Leda willamettensis, Leda stewardi, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda minuta, Leda houstonia, Leda semenoides, Leda coelatoides, Leda wautubbeana, Leda carolinensis, Leda longifrons, Leda borsoni, Leda wissmanniana, Leda pygmaea, Leda pistorupes, Leda barranca, Leda opulenta, Leda magnopsis, Leda lacryma, Leda distincta, Leda catasarca, Leda polynominata, Leda zelima, Leda rangei, Leda whitfieldi, Leda elliptica, Leda vanuxemi, Leda projecta
Type specimen: Its type locality is Col Rodella, Campitello (Muschelkalk Fm.), which is in an Anisian carbonate limestone in Italy
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (3: Newfoundland and Labrador collections), Greenland (2), Iceland (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (3: California)
• Triassic of Germany (1)
Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.