Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae

Full reference: A. A. Olsson. 1930. Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 3, Eocene Mollusca. Bulletins of American Paleontology 17(62):1-164

Belongs to Nucula according to A. A. Olsson 1930

Sister taxa: Nucula (Gibbonucula), Nucula (Lamellinucula), Nucula (Leionucula), Nucula (Linucula), Nucula (Nucula), Nucula alcocki, Nucula andersoni, Nucula assiniboiensis, Nucula athabaskensis, Nucula brewsterensis, Nucula calcicola, Nucula cancellata, Nucula cancellata, Nucula certisinus, Nucula concinna, Nucula cossmanni, Nucula costaeimbricatis, Nucula crenulata, Nucula crepida, Nucula darella, Nucula delphinodonta, Nucula domandaensis, Nucula gabbiana, Nucula greppini, Nucula hanleyi, Nucula hartvigiana, Nucula major, Nucula mancorensis, Nucula margaritifera, Nucula martini, Nucula micheleae, Nucula morundiana, Nucula narica, Nucula nejdensis, Nucula nitidula, Nucula nitidulaformis, Nucula njalindungensis, Nucula observatoria, Nucula orbicella, Nucula paboensis, Nucula pilkeyi, Nucula pisum, Nucula planimarginata, Nucula proxima, Nucula prunicola, Nucula pusilla, Nucula rembangensis, Nucula reticularis, Nucula rossiana, Nucula sedanensis, Nucula semistriata, Nucula shaleri, Nucula sinaria, Nucula stantoni, Nucula studeri, Nucula subrotundata, Nucula subtransversa, Nucula sulcata, Nucula tallahalaensis, Nucula taphria, Nucula tatriana, Nucula tersior, Nucula tumida, Nucula turgens, Nucula ventricosa, Nucula vestigia, Nucula vicksburgensis, Nucula waikuraensis, Nucula washingtonensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Talara Shale, Talara Fm - Quebrada Barrancas, which is in a Bartonian offshore shale in the Talara Formation of Peru

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): length 10.7