Lucina (Parvilucina) posteocurta Dockery 1982 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Full reference: D. T. Dockery. 1982. Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi. Mississippi Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Geology 123:1-261

Belongs to Lucina (Parvilucina) according to D. T. Dockery 1982

Sister taxa: Lucina (Parvilucina) callosana, Parvilucina (Callucinella), Parvilucina (Parvilucina), Parvilucina chavani, Parvilucina costata, Parvilucina crenella, Parvilucina crenulata, Parvilucina elegantissima, Parvilucina mazatlanica, Parvilucina multistriata, Parvilucina pusilla, Parvilucina seminulum, Parvilucina tenuisculpta, Parvilucina yaquensis, Phacoides (Parvilucina) prunus

Type specimen: USNM 340443, a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal chemosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Oligocene of United States (32: Mississippi collections)

Total: 32 collections each including a single occurrence

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