Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Alternative spelling: Lucina (Loripes)
Parent taxon: Lucininae according to J. Taylor and E. Glover 2021
See also Cox et al. 1969, Freneix et al. 1988, Moths et al. 2010, Schneider et al. 2005 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Austriella, Barbierella, Callucinopsis, Cavilinga, Cavilucina, Clathrolucina, Divalinga, Ferrocina, Gibbolucina, Hadralucina, Here, Keletistes, Lepilucina, Lucina, Lucinella, Luciniola, Lucinisca, Megaxinus, Mesolinga, Nevenulora, Parvilucina, Phacoides, Plastomiltha, Pleurolucina, Radiolucina, Recurvella, Saxolucina, Scabrilucina, Stewartia, Volupia
Subtaxa: Loripes (Loripes) Loripes atavus Loripes dujardini Loripes eburnea Loripes proavius Loripes simulans Loripes subvexa
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), France (2), Morocco (1), Mozambique (1), South Africa (5), Spain (3), Türkiye (2)
• Pliocene of Italy (1), Pakistan (2)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Austria (1), Bulgaria (1), France (1), Italy (3), Poland (3), Slovakia (1), South Africa (1)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Mississippi)
• Paleocene of Belgium (3), Denmark (1), Germany (1)
• Cretaceous of Denmark (2)
• Jurassic of Germany (12)
• Permian of Pakistan (6)
Total: 56 collections including 67 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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