Bivalvia - Pandorida - Lyonsiidae
Synonym: Pandorina Scacchi 1833
Parent taxon: Lyonsiidae according to G.P. Deshayes 1857
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Eames 1951, Hendy et al. 2008, Sepkoski 2002 and Wienrich 1999
Sister taxa: Mytilimeria, Spinolyonsiella
Subtaxa: Lyonsia (Endomargarus) Lyonsia arenosa Lyonsia californica Lyonsia heberti Lyonsia hyalina Lyonsia pakistanica Lyonsia subaequilateralis Lyonsia venturaensis
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (4: New Brunswick, Nunavut collections), Greenland (2), United States (10: California, Maine, Maryland, Virginia)
• Pliocene of Belgium (5), Pakistan (1), United States (2: California), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene of Belgium (1), Germany (3), the Netherlands (1), United States (1: Alaska)
• Oligocene of Denmark (1)
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: California)
• Paleocene of Denmark (4)
• Jurassic of France (2)
Total: 42 collections including 43 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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