Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Parent taxon: Lucinidae according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Adegoke 1977, Beu et al. 1990, Bouchet et al. 2010, Chiesa et al. 1995, Coan et al. 2000, Cox et al. 1969, Dockery 1982, Iqbal 1973, Moore 1988, Perrilliat 1992, Stilwell et al. 2004, Vokes 1980 and Ward 1992
Sister taxa: Afrolucina, Anodontia, Armimiltha, Austriella, Barbierella, Bretskya, Bulacanites, Cardiolucina, Cavilinga, Chavania, Codakia, Codakiinae, Cryptolucina, Ctena, Dilora, Discoloripes, Discolucina, Divalinga, Divaricella, Divaricellinae, Epicodakia, Falsolucinoma, Ferrocina, Fimbria, Fimbriinae, Funafutia, Gigantocyclus, Gonimyrtea, Graecina, Ilioniinae, Illionia, Joellina, Lamylucina, Lepidolucina, Lepilucina, Leucosphaera, Liralucina, Lucinoma, Maorithyas, Meganodontia, Megaxinus, Miltha, Milthinae, Milthona, Myrtea, Myrteinae, Myrtina, Nipponothracia, Notomyrtea, Nymphalucina, Palaeolucina, Parvidontia, Parvilucina, Phacoides joannis, Phenacocyclas, Pillucina, Poumea, Pseudomiltha, Pteromyrtea, Radiolucina, Sinbadiella, Solelucina, Superlucina, Tehamatea, Tinalucina, Wallucina
Subtaxa: Callucina Callucinopsis Cavilucina Epilucina Hadralucina Here Linga Loripes Lucina Luciniola Mesolinga Nevenulora Phacoides Plastomiltha Recurvella Saxolucina Stewartia Volupia
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Australia (2), the Bahamas (3), Bermuda (7), Cayman Islands (3), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (5), Cuba (2), Djibouti (2), Dominica (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (1), France (2), Haiti (6), India (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (3), Mexico (15), Morocco (1), Mozambique (1), Namibia (1), Panama (4), the Philippines (1), South Africa (8), Spain (5), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (147: California, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina), Yemen (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), Egypt (1), Malaysia (9), United States (9: California, Florida)
• Pliocene of Belgium (1), Costa Rica (7), the Dominican Republic (3), Ecuador (6), Egypt (1), Haiti (1), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), India (1), Indonesia (5), Italy (1), Jamaica (6), Japan (3), Mexico (1), Pakistan (4), Panama (5), Trinidad and Tobago (14), the United Kingdom (1), United States (44: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (4)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1), Indonesia (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (6), Argentina (5), Australia (5), Austria (2), Brazil (7), Bulgaria (4), Colombia (22), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (3), Cyprus (6), the Dominican Republic (4), Ecuador (7), France (2), French Southern Territories (1), Germany (2), Greece (2), Haiti (1), Hungary (1), India (8), Indonesia (10), Iran (1), Israel (1), Italy (11), Japan (2), Madagascar (2), Mexico (7), Moldova (4), Morocco (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (17), Peru (2), Poland (7), Puerto Rico (5), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (5), Somalia (3), South Africa (1), Trinidad and Tobago (14), United States (84: California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), Haiti (1), United States (14: Florida)
• Oligocene of Argentina (3), Austria (1), Belgium (4), Bulgaria (1), France (37), Hungary (2), Israel (1), Jamaica (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (5), Romania (1), Somalia (1), United States (65: California, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Washington)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Argentina (2)
• Eocene of Angola (1), Antarctica (17), Argentina (4), Bahrain (3), Belgium (3), Bosnia and Herzegovina (3), Brazil (1), Bulgaria (2), Colombia (5), Croatia (3), Egypt (10), France (3), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Haiti (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (3), Japan (2), Libya (1), Mexico (3), Nigeria (8), Pakistan (6), Panama (2), Peru (2), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Senegal (2), Somalia (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (159: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington), Venezuela (2)
• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: California)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (5), Austria (1), Belgium (6), Denmark (7), France (1), Germany (1), Greenland (1), India (1), Niger (2), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (37: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia)
• Paleogene of Japan (1)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (1), Angola (1), Antarctica (3), Argentina (1), Belgium (1), Cameroon (1), Canada (4: Alberta), Chile (14), Colombia (1), Denmark (2), Egypt (6), France (2), Germany (3), Greenland (5), India (1), Israel (15), Italy (3), Jamaica (2), Japan (2), Jordan (3), Lebanon (1), Libya (2), Madagascar (1), Mexico (2), Mozambique (2), New Zealand (14), Nigeria (2), Oman (1), Poland (5), Portugal (2), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Switzerland (4), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (192: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Argentina (1)
• Jurassic of Afghanistan (1), Argentina (2), Canada (1: Alberta), Chile (62), China (2), Ethiopia (8), France (44), Germany (17), Greenland (5), India (3), Italy (1), Japan (3), Kenya (3), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Somalia (6), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Tanzania (5), Thailand (2), the United Kingdom (49), United States (12: Alaska, California, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Yemen (8)
• Triassic to Jurassic of Singapore (1)
• Triassic of Germany (1), Hungary (5), Italy (12), the United Kingdom (1)
• Permian of China (1), Pakistan (10), Uruguay (1)
• Devonian of Germany (1)
Total: 1691 collections including 2173 occurrences