Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Alternative spellings: Miltha (Cavilucina), Phacoides (Cavilucina)
Parent taxon: Lucininae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Cox et al. 1969, Glibert 1985, Hendy et al. 2008, Moore 1969, Sepkoski 2002 and Wienrich 1999
Sister taxa: Austriella, Barbierella, Callucinopsis, Cavilinga, Clathrolucina, Divalinga, Ferrocina, Gibbolucina, Hadralucina, Here, Keletistes, Lepilucina, Loripes, Lucina, Lucinella, Luciniola, Lucinisca, Megaxinus, Mesolinga, Nevenulora, Parvilucina, Phacoides, Plastomiltha, Pleurolucina, Radiolucina, Recurvella, Saxolucina, Scabrilucina, Stewartia, Volupia
Subtaxa: Cavilucina (Cavilucina) Cavilucina (Mesomiltha)
Type: Lucina sulcata
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (2: North Carolina collections)
• Miocene of Ecuador (2)
• Eocene of Belgium (2), Senegal (1)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Texas)
• Jurassic of Chile (33), France (24), Saudi Arabia (1)
Total: 66 collections including 73 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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