Lahillia Cossmann 1899 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Lahillidae

Parent taxon: Lahillidae according to J. D. Stilwell et al. 2004

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Chiesa et al. 1995, Frassinetti and Covacevich 1999, Schneider 1995 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Lahillia (Lahillia) Lahillia angulata Lahillia huberi Lahillia laevigata Lahillia larseni Lahillia patagonica Lahillia wilckensi

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of Argentina (3 collections), Chile (4)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)

• Oligocene of Argentina (1)

• Eocene of Antarctica (10), Argentina (1)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Australia (1)

• Paleocene of Antarctica (20), Argentina (1), New Zealand (7)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (7), Argentina (11), Chile (1), New Zealand (12)

Total: 80 collections including 83 occurrences

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