Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Alternative spelling: Fimbria (Sphaeriola)
Parent taxon: Fimbriidae according to L. R. Cox et al. 1969
See also Cox 1924, Marwick 1953, Ros-Franch et al. 2014 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Cerkesia, Cyclopellatia, Haastina, Mutiella, Parvicorbis, Schafhaeutlia, Sphaera
Subtaxa: Fimbria (Sphaeriola) subquadrata Sphaeriola crassicostata Sphaeriola grandaeva Sphaeriola leedae Sphaeriola madridi
Type: Cardium madridi
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Chile (1 collection), China (1), France (16), Germany (4), Greenland (1), India (3), Italy (1), Japan (1), Kenya (1), Madagascar (1), New Zealand (4), Spain (4), the United Kingdom (7)
• Triassic of Italy (1), Jordan (2)
• Permian of Pakistan (1)
Total: 49 collections including 50 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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