Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Parent taxon: Cyclininae according to M. C. Perrilliat 1992
See also Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001 and Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: Cyclina, Cyprimeria, Luciploma
Subtaxa: Cyclinella beteyensis Cyclinella cyclica Cyclinella elevata Cyclinella falconensis Cyclinella galera Cyclinella harrisi Cyclinella jadisi Cyclinella subquadrata Cyclinella tenuis
Type: Dosinia (Artemis) tenuis
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (4 collections), Ecuador (1), Panama (1), Peru (1), United States (5: California, Florida, Louisiana), Uruguay (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1)
• Pliocene of Colombia (1), Costa Rica (4), Ecuador (1), Jamaica (1), Peru (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (3: California, Florida)
• Miocene of Colombia (19), Ecuador (1), Haiti (1), Mexico (6), Panama (36), Trinidad and Tobago (2), Venezuela (9)
• Oligocene of Panama (1)
• Eocene of United States (17: California, Washington)
Total: 119 collections including 126 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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