Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae

Full reference: F. E. Eames. 1951. A Contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: B. Description of the Lamellibranchia from standard sections in the Rakni Nala and Zinda Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 235:311-482

Belongs to Nucula (Lamellinucula) according to F. E. Eames 1951

Sister taxa: Nucula (Lamellinucula) carlottensis, Nucula (Lamellinucula) comta, Nucula (Lamellinucula) costacallistiformis, Nucula (Lamellinucula) exigua, Nucula (Lamellinucula) iphigenia, Nucula (Lamellinucula) jeffreysi, Nucula (Lamellinucula) minor, Nucula (Lamellinucula) pakistanica, Nucula (Lamellinucula) semiornata, Nucula (Lamellinucula) soriensis, Nucula (Lamellinucula) tamatavica

Type specimen: L. 79806, a shell. Its type locality is Zinda Pir, Pakistan, which is in an Eocene marine shale/limestone in Pakistan.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): shell 17.7 x 17.5