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 (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 catalina, Nucula certisinus, Nucula concinna, Nucula cordata, Nucula cossmanni, Nucula costaeimbricatis, Nucula crenulata, Nucula crepida, Nucula darella, Nucula delphinodonta, Nucula domandaensis, Nucula expansa, Nucula gabbiana, Nucula greppini, Nucula hanleyi, Nucula hartvigiana, Nucula inflata, Nucula lineata, Nucula major, 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 strigilata, Nucula studeri, Nucula subcuneata, Nucula subovalis, Nucula subrotundata, Nucula subtransversa, Nucula subtrigona, 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 Mancora Fm, which is in an Oligocene marine sandstone/shale in the Mancora Formation of Peru

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder