Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Alternative spellings: Lucina (Miltha), Milthea, Phacoides (Miltha)
Synonyms: Miltheoidea Marwick 1931, Milthoidea Marwick 1931
Parent taxon: Milthinae according to J. Taylor and E. Glover 2021
See also Adegoke 1977, Beu et al. 1990, Bouchet et al. 2010, Gardner 1947, Malumián et al. 1978, Moore 1988, Sepkoski 2002, Skwarko 1994, Squires 1987, Taylor and Glover 2018, Vokes 1969, Vokes 1980, Vokes 1983 and Woodring 1925
Sister taxa: Claibornites, Eamesiella, Eomiltha, Eophysema, Jagolucina, Myrtucina, Pterolucina, Retrolucina
Subtaxa: Lucina (Miltha) contorta Miltha (Miltha) Miltha (Plastomiltha) Miltha (Recticardo) Miltha africana Miltha caloosaensis Miltha carmenae Miltha childrenae Miltha childreni Miltha chipolana Miltha claibornensis Miltha hamptonensis Miltha hillsboroensis Miltha inflata Miltha neozelanica Miltha packi Miltha pandata Miltha woodi Miltha xantusi Miltha xustris Phacoides (Miltha) hernandoensis
Type: Lucina childreni
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), United States (27: California, Florida, North Carolina)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (2: Florida)
• Pliocene of Panama (1), United States (50: California, Florida)
• Miocene of Australia (7), Brazil (1), Cuba (2), Cyprus (1), the Dominican Republic (2), India (1), Madagascar (1), Moldova (2), New Zealand (1), Panama (4), Puerto Rico (2), United States (59: California, Florida)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (4: Florida)
• Oligocene of Jamaica (1), New Zealand (2), Panama (2), Peru (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (21: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Haiti (1)
• Eocene of Australia (1), Bulgaria (3), Haiti (1), New Zealand (2), Peru (3), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (2), Saudi Arabia (1), United States (33: Alabama, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon)
• Paleocene of Belgium (6), France (1), Germany (1), New Zealand (5), Nigeria (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (11: Alabama, California, Maryland, Texas, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Japan (6)
Total: 279 collections including 291 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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