Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Alternative combinations: Glycimeris perrini, Glycymeris perrini
Invalid subtaxa: Axinaea cor Gabb 1864, Axinaea gabbi Cossmann 1913 [replaced name], Glycimeris cor Gabb 1864, Glycymeris instabilis Anderson and Hanna 1925, Glycymeris perrini instabilis Anderson and Hanna 1925
Full reference: R. E. Dickerson. 1916. Stratigraphy and fauna of the Tejon Eocene of California. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 9(17):363-524
Belongs to Glycymeris (Tucetona) according to E. J. Moore 1983
See also Anderson and Hanna 1925, Cossmann 1913, Dickerson 1915, Dickerson 1916, Gabb 1864, Stewart 1930, Turner 1938 and Vokes 1939
Sister taxa: Glycymeris (Tucetona) evermanni, Glycymeris (Tucetona) fresnoensis, Glycymeris (Tucetona) ruckmani, Glycymeris (Tucetona) tenuimbricata, Glycymeris (Tucetona) verticordia, Tucetona (Bellaxinaea), Tucetona acuticostata, Tucetona angusticosta, Tucetona arata, Tucetona auriflua, Tucetona broadfooti, Tucetona castaneus, Tucetona convexus, Tucetona democraciana, Tucetona finlayi, Tucetona flabellata, Tucetona gealei, Tucetona hoylei, Tucetona lamyi, Tucetona laticostata, Tucetona lenticularis, Tucetona oculatus, Tucetona odhneri, Tucetona pectinata, Tucetona pectunculus, Tucetona sabinensis, Tucetona scalarisculpta, Tucetona sordida, Tucetona strigilata, Tucetona subtilis, Tucetona usiacurii
Type specimens:
- Glycymeris (Tucetona) perrini: Its type locality is UCMP loc672, Parsons Peak, which is in a Ypresian marine sandstone in the Domengine Formation of California.
- Axinaea cor: Holotype, ANSP no. 4480.
- Axinaea gabbi:
- Glycymeris instabilis:
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (7: California, Oregon collections)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
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