Bivalvia - Cardiida - Erycinidae
Parent taxon: Erycinidae according to R. Marquet 2005
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Glenn 1904, Maxwell 1992, Sepkoski 2002 and Wienrich 1999
Sister taxa: Amerycina, Arthritica, Borniola, Goodalliopsis, Litigiella, Lucinaxinus, Melliteryx, Myllita, Myllitella, Parvikellia, Pythina, Semeloidea, Semierycina
Subtaxa: Erycina (Erycina) Erycina (Hemilepton) Erycina (Pseudopythina) Erycina aequorea Erycina calvertensis Erycina catalaunensis Erycina marylandica Erycina pliculata Erycina pruna Erycina rectilinearis Erycina regifica Erycina rickardia Erycina speciosa Erycina striatissima Erycina whitfieldi
Ecology: stationary infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (4 collections), United States (8: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Belgium (2), Greece (1), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Indonesia (1), Jamaica (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene of France (1), Germany (4), Italy (2), the Netherlands (2), United States (12: Florida)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of France (1), United States (3: Oregon)
• Eocene of Belgium (2), France (1), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (8: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), Poland (1)
• Cretaceous of Denmark (1), New Zealand (2)
Total: 68 collections including 89 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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