Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Full reference: R. B. Stewart. 1930. Gabb's California Cretaceous and Tertiary type lamellibranchs. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Special Publication 3:1-314
Parent taxon: Lucininae according to J. D. Stilwell et al. 2004
Sister taxa: Callucina, Callucinopsis, Cavilucina, Epilucina, Hadralucina, Here, Linga, Loripes, Lucina, Luciniola, Mesolinga, Nevenulora, Phacoides, Plastomiltha, Recurvella, Stewartia, Volupia
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Miocene of Japan (2 collections)
• Oligocene of Austria (1), France (30)
• Eocene of Antarctica (17), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), Egypt (2), France (2), Italy (1), Somalia (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (14: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (3), Belgium (2), France (1), United States (3: California, Texas)
Total: 82 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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