Lucina gaylordi Wagner and Schilling 1923 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Alternative combination: Phacoides gaylordi

Full reference: C. M. Wagner and K. H. Schilling. 1923. The San Lorenzo Group of the San Emigdio region, California. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 14(6):235-276

Belongs to Lucina according to E. J. Moore 1988

See also Wagner and Schilling 1923

Sister taxa: Lucina (Cyclas), Lucina (Dentilucina), Lucina (Divaricella), Lucina (Lucina), Lucina (Lucinisca), Lucina (Microloripes), Lucina (Paslucina), Lucina (Quasilucina), Lucina (Recurvella), Lucina (Recurvella) dolabra, Lucina aegra, Lucina affinis, Lucina alcatrazis, Lucina amica, Lucina anceps, Lucina aquiana, Lucina bella, Lucina benoisti, Lucina bernayi, Lucina bicristata, Lucina bisculpta, Lucina bombifrons, Lucina brevifulcrata, Lucina callipteryx, Lucina cecchii, Lucina civatensis, Lucina coeloprocta, Lucina colusaensis, Lucina crassidens, Lucina credneri, Lucina crenulata, Lucina cretacea, Lucina dalikiensis, Lucina dalli, Lucina darchiaciana, Lucina dartoni, Lucina dautzenbergi, Lucina decorata, Lucina delaunayi, Lucina dentifera, Lucina divaricata, Lucina djunggranganensis, Lucina dubia, Lucina exquisita, Lucina fabuloides, Lucina fischeriana, Lucina gunyoungensis, Lucina inca, Lucina kellumi, Lucina kemedjingensis, Lucina kiawahensis, Lucina lefevrei, Lucina leucomomorpha, Lucina liasina, Lucina limopsis, Lucina lirata, Lucina liratula, Lucina luciniolae, Lucina lycetti, Lucina mattiformis, Lucina menardi, Lucina metablata, Lucina metableta, Lucina minutissima, Lucina nana, Lucina narica, Lucina nasuta, Lucina neglecta, Lucina neuquensis, Lucina nuciformis, Lucina orbicularis, Lucina ortmanni, Lucina ozarkana, Lucina pagana, Lucina papyracea, Lucina pensylvanica, Lucina perlevis, Lucina petrolei, Lucina pharaonis, Lucina plebeja, Lucina pomilia, Lucina postradiata, Lucina projecta, Lucina querida, Lucina radiata, Lucina rotundata, Lucina salomoni, Lucina semperiana, Lucina simplex, Lucina somalica, Lucina subcurta, Lucina subnumismalis, Lucina subobliqua, Lucina subsquamulata, Lucina tjibodasiana, Lucina washingtonensis, Lucina wattsi, Lucina whitei

Type specimen: UCCIP 11420, a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal chemosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Univ. Cal. Loc. 3195 - San Emigdio Fm (Eocene of California)

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