†family Paracyclidae Johnston 1993 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Paracyclidae

Parent taxon: Lucinoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011

See also Bouchet et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Lucinidae, Mactromyidae

Subtaxa: Paracyclas

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Type: Paracyclas

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), Czechia (2), France (3), Germany (7), Italy (1), Japan (1), Libya (1), Luxembourg (1), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (4), Türkiye (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)

• Ordovician of China (2)

Total: 246 collections including 282 occurrences

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