Nuculana moriyai Marincovich, Jr. 1993 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Full reference: L. Marincovich, Jr. 1993. Danian Mollusks from the Prince Creek Formation, Northern Alaska, and implications for arctic ocean paleogeography. Journal of Paleontology Memoir 67(5):1-35

Belongs to Nuculana according to L. Marincovich 1993

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Prince Creek Fm, Colville River, which is in a Danian estuary/bay mudstone/sandstone in the Prince Creek Formation of Alaska

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Prince Creek Fm, Colville River

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