Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
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: Lucininae according to J. D. Stilwell et al. 2004
Sister taxa: Austriella, Barbierella, Callucinopsis, Cavilinga, Cavilucina, Clathrolucina, Divalinga, Ferrocina, Gibbolucina, Hadralucina, Here, Keletistes, Lepilucina, Loripes, Lucina, Lucinella, Luciniola, Lucinisca, Megaxinus, Mesolinga, Nevenulora, Parvilucina, Phacoides, Plastomiltha, Pleurolucina, Radiolucina, Recurvella, Scabrilucina, Stewartia, Volupia
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Miocene of Japan (2 collections)
• Oligocene of Austria (1), France (30)
• Eocene to Jurassic of Antarctica (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (36), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), Egypt (2), France (2), Italy (1), Somalia (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (14: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (3), Belgium (2), France (1), United States (3: California, Texas)
Total: 102 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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