Lucina (Cavilinga) triloba Dockery 1982 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Full reference: D. T. Dockery. 1982. Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi. Mississippi Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Geology 123:1-261

Belongs to Lucina (Cavilinga) according to D. T. Dockery 1982

Sister taxa: Cavilinga blanda, Cavilinga lampra, Cavilinga prolongata, Cavilinga trisulcata, Lucina (Cavilinga) imbricolamella

Type specimen: USNM 340445, a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal chemosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Oligocene of United States (3: Mississippi collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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