Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae

Full reference: A. A. Olsson. 1931. Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene. Bulletins of American Paleontology 17(63)

Belongs to Nucula according to A. A. Olsson 1931

Sister taxa: Nucula (Deminucula), Nucula (Gibbonucula), Nucula (Lamellinucula), Nucula (Linucula), Nucula (Nucula), Nucula (Pronucula), Nucula (Rumptunucula), Nucula (Varinucula), Nucula acutula, Nucula alcocki, Nucula amica, Nucula andersoni, Nucula assiniboiensis, Nucula athabaskensis, Nucula bifida, Nucula bocconis, Nucula brewsterensis, Nucula calcicola, Nucula cancellata, Nucula cancellata, Nucula carantana, Nucula catalina, Nucula certisinus, Nucula chargensis, Nucula coelata, Nucula complanata, Nucula concinna, Nucula cordata, Nucula cossmanni, Nucula costaeimbricatis, Nucula crenulata, Nucula crepida, Nucula curvata, Nucula darella, Nucula delphinodonta, Nucula dimidiata, Nucula domandaensis, Nucula eightsii, Nucula etheridgei, Nucula excavata, Nucula expansa, Nucula gabbiana, Nucula goldfussii, Nucula greppini, Nucula hannibali, Nucula hausmanni, Nucula impressa, Nucula inflata, Nucula isosceles, Nucula joanniswanneri, Nucula karatsuensis, Nucula lateralis, Nucula latissima, Nucula lucida, Nucula major, Nucula margaritifera, Nucula martini, Nucula matani, Nucula mayeri, Nucula micheleae, Nucula monroensis, Nucula morundiana, Nucula mucronata, Nucula munsteri, Nucula narica, Nucula nejdensis, Nucula nitidosa, Nucula nizenensis, Nucula njalindungensis, Nucula observatoria, Nucula obtusa, Nucula obtusa, Nucula oppeliana, Nucula orbicella, Nucula ovata, Nucula paboensis, Nucula pectinata, Nucula pectuncularis, Nucula pilkeyi, Nucula planimarginata, Nucula prunicola, Nucula pusilla, Nucula rembangensis, Nucula rescuensis, Nucula reticularis, Nucula ripae, Nucula rossiana, Nucula rotunda, Nucula schlosseri, Nucula scissurata, Nucula sedanensis, Nucula semistriata, Nucula shaleri, Nucula simplex, Nucula sinaria, Nucula smithsoni, Nucula solitaria, Nucula speciosa, Nucula stantoni, Nucula stephana, Nucula storrsi, Nucula strigilata, Nucula studeri, Nucula subaequilatera, Nucula subcuneata, Nucula subnuda, Nucula subovalis, Nucula subredempta, Nucula subserradensis, Nucula subtransversa, Nucula sundaica, Nucula tallahalaensis, Nucula taphria, Nucula tatriana, Nucula telleri, Nucula tenuis, Nucula tenuistriata, Nucula tersior, Nucula townsendi, Nucula truncata, Nucula turgens, Nucula variabilis, Nucula vestigia, Nucula vicksburgensis, Nucula waikuraensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Mancora Fm, which is in an Eocene marine sandstone/shale in the Mancora Formation of Peru

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Mancora Fm

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