Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Alternative combinations: Miltha (Miltha) chipolana, Phacoides (Miltha) chipolanus
Synonyms: Phacoides (Miltha) heracleus Dall 1903, Phacoides (Miltha) smithwoodwardi Maury 1917
Belongs to Miltha according to W. P. Woodring 1982
See also Gardner 1947, Mansfield 1940 and Vokes 1969
Sister taxa: Lucina (Miltha) contorta, Miltha (Matanziella), Miltha (Miltha), Miltha (Plastomiltha), Miltha (Recticardo), Miltha africana, Miltha childreni, Miltha claibornensis, Miltha hamptonensis, Miltha hillsboroensis, Miltha inflata, Miltha merangiana, Miltha pandata, Miltha xantusi, Phacoides (Miltha) hernandoensis
Type specimens:
- Miltha chipolana: USNM 114712, a shell
- Phacoides (Miltha) heracleus:
- Phacoides (Miltha) smithwoodwardi:
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1 collection), Panama (3), Puerto Rico (1), United States (27: Florida)
• Oligocene of United States (2: Alabama, Florida)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Haiti (1)
Total: 35 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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