Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Synonyms: Dentilucina Fischer 1887, Lucina (Dentilucina) Fischer 1887
Parent taxon: Lucininae according to J. Taylor and E. Glover 2021
See also Clark and Arnold 1923, Gardner 1943, Glenn 1904, Nagao 1928, Olsson 1931, Oostingh 1935, Sellards 1917, Skwarko 1994, Vokes 1980, Vredenburg 1928, Woodring 1925 and Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: Austriella, Barbierella, Callucinopsis, Cavilinga, Cavilucina, Clathrolucina, Divalinga, Ferrocina, Gibbolucina, Hadralucina, Here, Keletistes, Lepilucina, Loripes, Lucina, Lucinella, Luciniola, Lucinisca, Megaxinus, Mesolinga, Nevenulora, Parvilucina, Plastomiltha, Pleurolucina, Radiolucina, Recurvella, Saxolucina, Scabrilucina, Stewartia, Volupia
Subtaxa: Dentilucina orbicularis Phacoides (Bellucina) Phacoides (Phacoides) Phacoides andersoni Phacoides cerma Phacoides eaglesomei Phacoides eudaidalus Phacoides hillsboroensis Phacoides nocariensis Phacoides ocalanus Phacoides pacifica Phacoides pectinatus Phacoides perovatus Phacoides pullensis Phacoides silicatus Phacoides subrhomboidalis Phacoides subsquamosa Phacoides thalassogonus Phacoides wacissanus Phacoides woodi
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Colombia (1 collection), Cuba (1), Haiti (1), India (1), Panama (2), United States (7: Florida)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of Belgium (1), Costa Rica (1), the Dominican Republic (2), India (1), Indonesia (3), Jamaica (1), Panama (1), United States (8: Florida, South Carolina)
• Miocene of Brazil (1), Colombia (16), Cyprus (3), the Dominican Republic (3), Ecuador (1), France (1), Haiti (1), India (3), Mexico (1), Moldova (4), Peru (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (17: Florida, Maryland, South Carolina, Washington)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Haiti (1), United States (9: Florida)
• Oligocene of Panama (4), United States (29: California, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Washington, Washinton)
• Eocene of Colombia (1), Croatia (3), Mexico (3), Nigeria (8), United States (1: South Carolina)
• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: California)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Denmark (3), United States (8: California, Texas)
• Paleogene of Japan (1)
• Cretaceous of Angola (1), Egypt (1), Jordan (1), Libya (2), Nigeria (1), Oman (1), United States (38: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas)
Total: 205 collections including 230 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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