Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Alternative combination: Phacoides (Lucinisca) costaricensis
Full reference: A. A. Olsson. 1922. The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica. Bulletins of American Paleontology 9(39):1-309
Belongs to Lucinisca according to A. J. W. Hendy et al. 2008
See also Olsson 1922
Sister taxa: Lucina (Lucinisca) fausta, Lucina (Lucinisca) fluctivaga, Lucina (Lucinisca) menuda, Lucina (Lucinisca) varisculpta, Lucinisca bocasensis, Lucinisca calhounensis, Lucinisca centrifuga, Lucinisca cribrarius, Lucinisca fenestrata, Lucinisca hispaniolana, Lucinisca mirandana, Lucinisca muricata, Lucinisca nassula, Lucinisca nuttalli, Lucinisca protista
Type specimen: Its type locality is Middle Creek [Rio Banano Fm], which is in a Piacenzian marine siliciclastic in the Rio Banano Formation of Costa Rica
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution: found only at Middle Creek [Rio Banano Fm]
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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