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Taxonomy
Phacoides californicus was named by Conrad (1837) [DISTRIBUTION: Late Miocene-Recent; California-Mexico]. It is a 3D body fossil. It is the type species of Epilucina.
It was recombined as Lucina californica by Ashley (1895), Addicott and Emerson (1959); it was corrected as Phacoides californica by Chace and Chace (1919); it was recombined as Phacoides (Callucina) californicus by Oldroyd (1925), Loel and Corey (1932); it was recombined as Lucina (Codakia) californica by Schenck (1945); it was recombined as Lucinisca californica by Emerson and Addicott (1953); it was recombined as Lucina (Epilucina) californica by Hertlein and Grant (1972); it was recombined as Codakia (Epilucina) californica by Moore (1988); it was recombined as Epilucina californica by Coan et al. (2000), Hendy (2021).
It was recombined as Lucina californica by Ashley (1895), Addicott and Emerson (1959); it was corrected as Phacoides californica by Chace and Chace (1919); it was recombined as Phacoides (Callucina) californicus by Oldroyd (1925), Loel and Corey (1932); it was recombined as Lucina (Codakia) californica by Schenck (1945); it was recombined as Lucinisca californica by Emerson and Addicott (1953); it was recombined as Lucina (Epilucina) californica by Hertlein and Grant (1972); it was recombined as Codakia (Epilucina) californica by Moore (1988); it was recombined as Epilucina californica by Coan et al. (2000), Hendy (2021).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Codakia dejaeri, Codakia haidingeri, Epilucina dejaeri, Epilucina rotunda, L. alpina, L. antarctandica, L. aquaensis, L. arenacea, L. aspera, L. atoma, L. aurantia, L. barrandei, L. bellona, L. blanckenhorni, L. blankenhorni, L. canterburiensis, L. chatfieldana, L. chubutensis, L. coquandiana, L. corbisoides, L. cornueliana, L. corpulenta, L. crucialis, L. cutleri, L. dalmatina, L. dentonana, L. despecta, L. divaricata, L. downesi, L. edentula, L. fischeri, L. fragilis, L. frugalis, L. fuggeri, L. fulva, L. glebula, L. haidingerii, L. hannibali, L. hannibali, L. hasei, L. haueri, L. immanis, L. immutabilis, L. laevis, L. landanensis, L. lepis, L. leufuensis, L. leufuensis, L. limbata, L. lineata, L. losmadesamba, L. lugeoni, L. martini, L. masylaea, L. mazatlantica, L. michelotti, L. mokattamensis, L. multilamellata, L. mutabilis, L. neasquamata, L. nokbaensis, L. nuttallii, L. obliqua, L. oleodorsum, L. orbicularis, L. pectinata, L. percancellata, L. perminuta, L. perusiana, L. pharaonica, L. planistria, L. podagrinus, L. polythele, L. porrecta, L. potosina, L. priabonensis, L. primoidea, L. prorrecta, L. pulvinatus, L. punctulata, L. rectangulata, L. reisi, L. repleyana, L. reticulata, L. ripleyana, L. rollei, L. sanctae-crucis, L. scotti, L. seclusa, L. seminolis, L. sesostridis, L. solida, L. squamata, L. stearnsiana, L. subporrecta, L. subprorecta, L. substriata, L. sylvaerupis, L. tenella, L. tenera, L. tenuistria, L. textilis, L. thebaica, L. toishiyamensis, L. tumida, L. useilli, L. valdensis, L. velai, L. vermicularis, L. vogli, L. zitteli, L. katherinepalmerae, L. camaronensis, L. quincula, L. sabelli, L. tehuacanensis, L. crassiplica, L. nanna, L. pomilia, L. bipartita, L. trisulcata, L. trisulcata, L. meneghini, L. michelotti, L. tumida, L. gemma, L. prosoptera, L. reticulata, L. lactea, L. hamata, L. kadievi, L. multivittae, L. pectinata, L. arrogans, L. liana, L. roigi, L. depressa, L. multilamellata, L. butonensis, L. ephraimi, L. pisidium, L. seminulum, L. fortidentalis, L. planistria, L. inopinata, L. miobarbieri, L. micraulax
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1837 | Phacoides californicus Conrad p. 255 figs. pl. 20, fig. 1 |
| 1895 | Lucina californica Ashley p. 344 |
| 1919 | Phacoides californica Chace and Chace |
| 1925 | Phacoides (Callucina) californicus Oldroyd p. 5 |
| 1932 | Phacoides (Callucina) californicus Loel and Corey p. 211 |
| 1945 | Lucina (Codakia) californica Schenck |
| 1953 | Lucinisca californica Emerson and Addicott p. 440 |
| 1959 | Lucina californica Addicott and Emerson p. 17 |
| 1972 | Lucina (Epilucina) californica Hertlein and Grant p. 247 figs. Plate 46, Figures 11, 16 |
| 1988 | Codakia (Epilucina) californica Moore p. D11 figs. Plate 1, figures 16, 17 |
| 2000 | Epilucina californica Coan et al. p. 263 |
| 2021 | Epilucina californica Hendy |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Lucina (Epilucina) californica Conrad 1837 [California lucine]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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Age range: base of the Early/Lower Pliocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 5.33300 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (11 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Pliocene | USA (California) | Phacoides californicus (208580) | |
| Pliocene | Mexico (Baja California) | Phacoides californica (97124) | |
| Piacenzian | USA (California) | Lucina californica (122752) Phacoides californicus (186031) | |
| Pleistocene | USA (California) | Phacoides californicus (240570 240577) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | USA (California) | Phacoides californica (207886) Phacoides californicus (222995) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (California) | Lucinisca californica (240555 240635) Phacoides californica (202936) |