Cavilucina Fischer 1887 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Alternative spellings: Miltha (Cavilucina), Phacoides (Cavilucina)

Parent taxon: Lucininae according to H. E. Vokes 1980

See also Cox et al. 1969, Glibert 1985, Hendy et al. 2008, Moore 1969, Sepkoski 2002 and Wienrich 1999

Sister taxa: Callucina, Callucinopsis, Epilucina, Hadralucina, Here, Linga, Loripes, Lucina, Luciniola, Mesolinga, Nevenulora, Phacoides, Plastomiltha, Recurvella, Saxolucina, Stewartia, Volupia

Subtaxa: Cavilucina (Cavilucina) Cavilucina (Mesomiltha)

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Type: Lucina sulcata

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (2: North Carolina collections)

• Miocene of Ecuador (2)

• Eocene of Belgium (2), Senegal (1)

• Paleocene of United States (1: Texas)

• Jurassic of Chile (33), France (24), Saudi Arabia (1)

Total: 66 collections including 73 occurrences

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