Nuculana cultellus von Koenen 1897 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Alternative combination: Leda cultellus

Full reference: A. von Koenen. 1897. Ueber Fossilien der unteren Kreide am Ufer des Mungo in Kamerun. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge 1:3-48

Belongs to Nuculana according to E. Dartevelle and S. Freneix 1957

See also von Koenen 1897

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 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, Crassoleda crassatelloides, Leda renevieri, Leda praeradiata, Leda rangei, Leda leia, Leda parkei, Leda scalata, Leda kittensis, Leda coelata, Leda magnopsis, Leda carolinensis, Leda whitfieldi, Leda nitida, Leda discors, Leda wautubbeana, Leda coelatoides, Leda decorata, Leda projecta, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda magna, Leda becki, Leda obolella, Leda schiavi, Leda barranca, Leda reussi, Leda calcarensis, Leda bavarica, Leda gabrielis, Leda lacryma, Leda wissmanniana, Leda subtrigona, Leda houstonia, Leda caudata, Leda ozarkola, Leda zelima, Leda ingens, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda vaticani, Leda transversa, Leda dijki, Leda subquadrata, Leda semistriata, Leda scutula, Leda pistorupes, Leda opulenta, Leda stewardi, Leda minuta, Leda (Lembulus), Leda protexta, Leda radiata, Leda doris, Leda distincta, Leda lincolnensis, Leda claviformis, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda semipolita, Leda sulcellata, Leda plana, Leda pygmaea, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda borsoni, Leda cochlearella, Leda striatula, Leda crassiparva, Leda excavata, Leda trumani, Leda glabra, Leda catasarca, Leda vanuxemi, Leda zitteli, Leda semenoides, Leda alkiensis, Leda striatella, Leda elliptica, Leda minuta, Leda (Leda), Leda deffneri, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda (Spinula)

Type specimen: Its type locality is Elephantenbank, Mungo River, which is in a Turonian carbonate limestone in the Mungo River Formation of Cameroon

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Mungo River, between Mundame and Eliki

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