Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Alternative spellings: Lucina (Callucina), Phacoides (Callucina)
Parent taxon: Lucininae according to E. J. Moore 1988
See also Cox et al. 1969, Dockery 1982, Lamprell and Whitehead 1992, Oldroyd 1925, Sepkoski 2002, Vokes 1980 and Wagner and Schilling 1923
Sister taxa: Callucinopsis, Cavilucina, Epilucina, Hadralucina, Here, Linga, Loripes, Lucina, Luciniola, Mesolinga, Nevenulora, Phacoides, Plastomiltha, Recurvella, Saxolucina, Stewartia, Volupia
Subtaxa: Callucina (Callucina) Callucina (Pseudolucinisca) Callucina (Striolucina) Callucina balcombica Callucina glauca Callucina keenae Callucina lacteola Lucina (Callucina) choctavensis
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Costa Rica (1), Haiti (1), United States (15: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (2), Ecuador (2), Jamaica (5), Panama (2), United States (1: South Carolina), Venezuela (3)
• Miocene of Australia (3), Ecuador (1), United States (2: Florida)
• Oligocene of Belgium (4), France (24), United States (4: Mississippi)
• Eocene of Argentina (1), Belgium (2), France (1), United States (2: Texas)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), Germany (1), United States (2: Texas)
• Cretaceous of Egypt (1), Lebanon (1), Libya (2), Mozambique (1), Tunisia (1), United States (3: North Carolina, Texas)
Total: 92 collections including 98 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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