Bivalvia - Lucinida - Thyasiridae
Alternative combination: Amphidesma flexuosa
Synonyms: Lucina gouldii Philippi 1845, Thyasira gouldi Philippi 1845, Thyasira gouldii Philippi 1845
Belongs to Thyasira according to A. Hendy 2021
See also Hendy 2020, Hendy et al. 2008, Matthews 1967 and Woodring et al. 1946
Sister taxa: Thyasira (Conchocele), Thyasira alaskana, Thyasira austrosulca, Thyasira becca, Thyasira chilensis, Thyasira cretacea, Thyasira montanita, Thyasira nana, Thyasira olssoni, Thyasira peruviana, Thyasira rashidi, Thyasira sarsii, Thyasira staufti, Thyasira tanabei, Thyasira tessaria, Thyasira xylodia
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (3: Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut collections), Greenland (2), United States (20: California, Maine, Vermont)
• Pliocene of Belgium (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (2: California)
• Miocene of Denmark (1), Germany (3), Poland (1), Slovakia (1)
• Oligocene of Denmark (4)
Total: 39 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.