Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Parent taxon: Nuculana according to M. Goto 1983
See also Agrawal and Kachhara 1979, Fischer 1969, Hautmann et al. 2015, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Nuculana (Borissia), Nuculana (Costanuculana), 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 gabbii, Nuculana gnomon, Nuculana gracillima, Nuculana grasslei, Nuculana jamaicensis, Nuculana konishii, Nuculana liciata, Nuculana mariae, Nuculana miaocunensis, Nuculana minima, Nuculana minuta, Nuculana moriyai, Nuculana multilineata, Nuculana oxia, Nuculana oxyrhyncha, Nuculana parkei, Nuculana parva, 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 willetti, Nuculana williamettensis, Nuculana zieteni, Leda deffneri, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda magnopsis, Leda magna, Leda leia, Leda ingens, Leda schiavi, Leda borsoni, Leda bavarica, Leda semistriata, Leda stewardi, Leda excavata, Leda subquadrata, Leda semenoides, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda carolinensis, Leda cochlearella, Leda catasarca, Leda doris, Leda glabra, Leda whitfieldi, Leda scutula, Leda houstonia, Leda (Lembulus), Leda elliptica, Leda striatella, Leda obolella, Leda pygmaea, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda semipolita, Leda discors, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda crassiparva, Leda parkei, Leda zitteli, Leda distincta, Leda trumani, Leda (Spinula), Leda claviformis, Leda subtrigona, Leda dijki, Leda protexta, Leda reussi, Leda radiata, Leda ozarkola, Leda lincolnensis, Leda minuta, Leda vaticani, Leda wautubbeana, Leda barranca, Leda plana, Leda nitida, Leda caudata, Leda kittensis, Leda alkiensis, Leda becki, Leda opulenta, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda lacryma, Leda (Leda), Leda pistorupes, Leda projecta, Leda coelata, Leda wissmanniana, Leda striatula, Leda minuta, Leda praeradiata, Leda coelatoides, Leda vanuxemi, Leda transversa, Leda rangei, Leda sulcellata, Leda gabrielis, Leda calcarensis, Leda renevieri, Leda decorata, Leda scalata, Leda zelima, Crassoleda crassatelloides
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Canada (1: Northwest Territories collection), Japan (4), the United Kingdom (8)
• Triassic of Japan (2)
Total: 15 collections including 16 occurrences