Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Alternative spelling: Lucina (Loripes)
Parent taxon: Lucininae according to L. R. Cox et al. 1969
See also Freneix et al. 1988, Moths et al. 2010, Schneider et al. 2005 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Callucina, Callucinopsis, Cavilucina, Epilucina, Hadralucina, Here, Linga, Lucina, Luciniola, Mesolinga, Nevenulora, Phacoides, Plastomiltha, Recurvella, Saxolucina, Stewartia, Volupia
Subtaxa: Loripes (Loripes) Loripes aberrans Loripes atavus 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), Namibia (1), South Africa (5), Spain (3), Turkey (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: 57 collections including 68 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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