Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Parent taxon: Fimbriinae according to S. Mendir et al. 2021
See also Cox et al. 1969, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Cerkesia, Cyclopellatia, Haastina, Mutiella, Parvicorbis, Schafhaeutlia, Sphaeriola
Subtaxa: Sphaera americanus Sphaera corrugata Sphaera madagascariensis Sphaera whitneyi
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (2 collections), Antarctica (1), Chile (1), Egypt (7), Germany (1), Italy (2), Madagascar (5), Mexico (4), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (1), Tanzania (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (5), Venezuela (1)
• Jurassic of Egypt (1), India (2), Madagascar (1), Tanzania (5), Yemen (2)
• Triassic of Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (1: Nevada)
Total: 49 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.