Bivalvia - Lucinida - Thyasiridae

Full reference: S. S. Berry. 1947. New Mollusca from the Pleistocene of San Pedro, California - III. Bulletins of American Paleontology 31(127):256-274

Parent taxon: Thyasiridae according to E. J. Moore 1988

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Axinopsida, Axinopsidinae, Axinulus, Axinus, Conchocele, Cretaxinus, Eothyasira, Genaxinus, Leptaxinus, Parathyasira, Rhacothyas, Storthodon, Tauraxinus, Thyasira, Thyasirinae

Subtaxa: Adontorhina cyclia

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder-chemosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Hilltop Quarry (1930s-1950s) [Lomita Marl] (Quaternary of California)

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