Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Full reference: D. T. Dockery. 1982. Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi. Mississippi Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Geology 123:1-261
Belongs to Nuculana according to D. T. Dockery 1982
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 alpina, Nuculana amygdaloides, 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 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, Leda scalata, Leda (Lembulus), Leda semenoides, Leda leia, Leda bavarica, Leda whitfieldi, Leda projecta, Leda ozarkola, Leda wissmanniana, Leda decorata, Leda plana, Leda barranca, Leda coelata, Leda excavata, Leda ingens, Leda glabra, Leda parkei, Leda willamettensis, Leda subtrigona, Leda becki, Leda striatula, Leda catasarca, Leda elliptica, Leda caudata, Leda minuta, Leda transversa, Leda sulcellata, Leda cochlearella, Leda borsoni, Leda houstonia, Leda gabrielis, Leda crassiparva, Leda claviformis, Leda scutula, Leda (Leda), Leda kittensis, Leda trumani, Leda subquadrata, Leda stewardi, Leda radiata, Leda reussi, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda alkiensis, Leda minuta, Leda pistorupes, Leda striatella, Leda lacryma, Leda praeradiata, Leda (Spinula), Leda discors, Leda longifrons, Leda opulenta, Leda vanuxemi, Leda semistriata, Leda magna, Leda dijki, Leda deffneri, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda pygmaea, Leda schiavi, Leda semipolita, Leda zelima, Leda polynominata, Leda carolinensis, Leda wautubbeana, Leda truncata, Leda renevieri, Leda rangei, Leda distincta, Leda calcarensis, Leda nitida, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda obolella, Leda coelatoides, Leda subtrigonalis, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda vaticani, Leda doris, Leda magnopsis, Leda zitteli, Crassoleda crassatelloides
Type specimen: USNM 340421, a shell
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (21: Mississippi collections)
Total: 21 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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