Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Alternative spellings: Cavilucina (Pegophysema), Loripinus (Pegophysema), Pegophysema
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: Anodontia according to E. A. Glover and J. D. Taylor 2007
See also Marks 1951, Moore 1988, Pilsbry and Olsson 1941, Sepkoski 2002, Stewart 1930 and Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: Anodontia (Afranodontia), Anodontia (Afrophysema), Anodontia (Anodontia), Anodontia (Cavatidens), Anodontia (Cryptophysema), Anodontia (Euanodontia), Anodontia (Lissosphaira), Anodontia (Loripinus), Anodontia alba, Anodontia bulla, Anodontia goliath, Anodontia maxima, Anodontia mioinflata, Anodontia spherica, Anodontia sphericula
Subtaxa: Anodontia (Pegophysema) philippiana Anodontia (Pegophysema) schrammi Pegophysema (Pegophysema) Pegophysema edentuloides Pegophysema janus Pegophysema mauryae Pegophysema omaliusi Pegophysema santarosana
Type: Anodontia (Pegophysema) schrammi
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (4: Florida collections)
• Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (5), United States (11: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (5), Panama (14), United States (24: Florida)
• Oligocene of Belgium (1), France (18), Panama (1)
• Eocene of Somalia (1)
Total: 86 collections including 87 occurrences