Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Full reference: S. Kiel and J. L. Goedert. 2007. New mollusks associated with biogenic substrates in Cenozoic deepâwater sediments of Washington State. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52(1):41-52
Belongs to Nuculana according to S. Kiel and J. L. Goedert 2007
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 mariae, Nuculana miaocunensis, Nuculana minima, Nuculana minuta, Nuculana moriyai, Nuculana multilineata, Nuculana oxia, Nuculana oxyrhyncha, Nuculana parkei, Nuculana parva, Nuculana pernula, 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 oxyrhyncha, Leda plana, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda renevieri, Leda whitfieldi, Leda decorata, Leda barranca, Leda carolinensis, Leda wissmanniana, Leda doris, Leda magnopsis, Leda gabrielis, Leda scutula, Leda cochlearella, Leda claviformis, Leda transversa, Leda lacryma, Leda polynominata, Leda kittensis, Leda reussi, Leda minuta, Leda semistriata, Leda minuta, Leda subquadrata, Leda dijki, Leda caudata, Leda striatella, Leda trumani, Leda ozarkola, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda rangei, Leda stewardi, Leda obolella, Leda alkiensis, Leda pygmaea, Leda schiavi, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda leia, Leda discors, Leda sulcellata, Leda subtrigona, Leda bavarica, Leda nitida, Leda magna, Leda excavata, Leda borsoni, Leda scalata, Leda pistorupes, Leda striatula, Leda coelatoides, Leda parkei, Leda zitteli, Leda calcarensis, Leda (Lembulus), Leda zelima, Leda semenoides, Leda houstonia, Leda coelata, Leda becki, Leda ingens, Leda opulenta, Leda lincolnensis, Leda vanuxemi, Leda (Spinula), Leda vaticani, Leda (Leda), Leda protexta, Leda crassiparva, Leda distincta, Leda deffneri, Leda wautubbeana, Leda glabra, Leda radiata, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda catasarca, Leda elliptica, Leda semipolita, Leda projecta, Leda praeradiata
Type specimen: LACMIP 12310. Its type locality is Shipwreck Point, LACMIP 8233, which is in an Oligocene deep-water limestone in the Makah Formation of Washington.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (4: Washington collections)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Washington)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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