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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) and 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) and Loel and Corey (1932); it was recombined as Lucina (Codakia) californica by Schenck (1945); it was recombined as Codakia (Epilucina) californica by Moore (1988); it was recombined as Epilucina californica by Coan et al. (2000) and Hendy (2021).
It was recombined as Lucina californica by Ashley (1895) and 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) and Loel and Corey (1932); it was recombined as Lucina (Codakia) californica by Schenck (1945); it was recombined as Codakia (Epilucina) californica by Moore (1988); it was recombined as Epilucina californica by Coan et al. (2000) and Hendy (2021).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
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 |
| 1959 | Lucina californica Addicott and Emerson p. 17 |
| 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.
†Phacoides californicus Conrad 1837
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Piacenzian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 3.60000 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pliocene | Mexico (Baja California) | Phacoides californica (97124) | |
| Piacenzian | USA (California) | Phacoides californicus (186031) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | USA (California) | Phacoides californica (207886) Phacoides californicus (222995) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (California) | Phacoides californica (202936) |