Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Alternative spellings: Leda (Jupiteria), Nuculana (Jupiteria)
Synonym: Epacroleda Savitskii 1969
Parent taxon: Nuculaninae according to E. V. Coan and P. Valentich-Scott 2012
See also Coan et al. 2000, Hayward 1972, Huber 2010, Marwick 1931, Maxwell 1992, Rosenberg et al. 2006, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer et al. 2004, Stilwell and Zinsmeister 1992, Stilwell et al. 2004, Todd 2001, Vokes 1980, Woodring 1925 and Woodring 1973
Sister taxa: Adrana, Comitileda, Culunana, Ledina, Pseudoportlandia
Subtaxa: Epacroleda epacris 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) leachi Nuculana (Jupiteria) nugax Nuculana (Jupiteria) penderi Nuculana (Jupiteria) prisca Nuculana (Jupiteria) totangiensis Nuculana (Jupiteria) uawa
Type: Jupiteria concava
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (2 collections), Panama (1), United States (3: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (3)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (3), Panama (2), United States (1: California), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene of New Zealand (4), Panama (2), United States (6: Oregon)
• Oligocene of Panama (2)
• Eocene to Oligocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Texas)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (1), Belgium (1), New Zealand (4), Poland (1), United States (44: Alabama, Illinois, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Australia (2), New Zealand (30), United States (8: California, Colorado, Mississippi, South Dakota)
• Triassic of the Russian Federation (4)
Total: 133 collections including 139 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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