Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Alternative spellings: Anodontia (Pegophysema), Cavilucina (Pegophysema), Loripinus (Pegophysema)
Full reference: R. B. Stewart. 1930. Gabb's California Cretaceous and Tertiary type lamellibranchs. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Special Publication 3:1-314
Parent taxon: Pegophyseminae according to J. Taylor and E. Glover 2021
See also Glover and Taylor 2007, Marks 1951, Moore 1988, Pilsbry and Olsson 1941, Sepkoski 2002, Stewart 1930 and Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: Afrophysema, Cavatidens
Subtaxa: Anodontia (Pegophysema) philippiana Pegophysema (Pegophysema) Pegophysema janus Pegophysema mauryae Pegophysema omaliusi Pegophysema santarosana Pegophysema schrammi Pegophysema sphericula
Type: Anodontia (Pegophysema) schrammi
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), United States (4: Florida)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), the Dominican Republic (5)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2)
• Miocene of Australia (2), the Dominican Republic (5), Panama (14), United States (24: Florida)
• Oligocene of Belgium (1), France (18), Panama (1)
Total: 78 collections including 79 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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