Bivalvia - Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Alternative spelling: Lucina (Paracyclas)
Parent taxon: Mactromyidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Cox et al. 1969, Hall and Whitfield 1872 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Bathycorbis, Clisocolus, Cordiula, Eolucina, Linetia, Mactromya, Mactromyopsis, Montanaria, Sexta, Thetironia, Thetis, Unicardium
Subtaxa: Paracyclas dubia Paracyclas elliptica Paracyclas occidentalis Paracyclas proavia
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Triassic to Jurassic of United States (1: Alaska collection)
• Carboniferous of China (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Devonian of Australia (4), Canada (13: Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (17), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (3), Germany (6), Italy (1), Japan (1), Libya (1), Luxembourg (1), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (4), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (165: Alaska, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia), Venezuela (3), Vietnam (2)
• Silurian of Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (6)
Total: 243 collections including 279 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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