Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Full reference: T. A. Conrad. 1848. Observations on the Eocene formations, and descriptions of one hundred and five new fossils from that period, from the vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi; with an appendix. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 3:280-299
Belongs to Lucina according to T. A. Conrad 1848
Sister taxa: Lucina (Cyclas), Lucina (Dentilucina), Lucina (Divaricella), Lucina (Lucina), Lucina (Lucinisca), Lucina (Microloripes), Lucina (Paslucina), Lucina (Quasilucina), Lucina (Recurvella), Lucina (Recurvella) dolabra, Lucina aegra, Lucina affinis, Lucina alcatrazis, Lucina amica, Lucina anceps, Lucina aquiana, Lucina bella, Lucina benoisti, Lucina bernayi, Lucina bicristata, Lucina bisculpta, Lucina bombifrons, Lucina brevifulcrata, Lucina callipteryx, Lucina cecchii, Lucina civatensis, Lucina coeloprocta, Lucina colusaensis, Lucina crassidens, Lucina credneri, Lucina crenulata, Lucina cretacea, Lucina dalikiensis, Lucina dalli, Lucina darchiaciana, Lucina dartoni, Lucina dautzenbergi, Lucina decorata, Lucina delaunayi, Lucina dentifera, Lucina divaricata, Lucina djunggranganensis, Lucina dubia, Lucina exquisita, Lucina fabuloides, Lucina fischeriana, Lucina gaylordi, Lucina gunyoungensis, Lucina inca, Lucina kellumi, Lucina kemedjingensis, Lucina kiawahensis, Lucina lefevrei, Lucina leucomomorpha, Lucina liasina, Lucina limopsis, Lucina lirata, Lucina liratula, Lucina luciniolae, Lucina lycetti, Lucina mattiformis, Lucina menardi, Lucina metablata, Lucina metableta, Lucina minutissima, Lucina nana, Lucina narica, Lucina nasuta, Lucina neglecta, Lucina neuquensis, Lucina nuciformis, Lucina orbicularis, Lucina ortmanni, Lucina ozarkana, Lucina pagana, Lucina papyracea, Lucina pensylvanica, Lucina petrolei, Lucina pharaonis, Lucina plebeja, Lucina pomilia, Lucina postradiata, Lucina projecta, Lucina querida, Lucina radiata, Lucina rotundata, Lucina salomoni, Lucina semperiana, Lucina simplex, Lucina somalica, Lucina subcurta, Lucina subnumismalis, Lucina subobliqua, Lucina subsquamulata, Lucina tjibodasiana, Lucina washingtonensis, Lucina wattsi, Lucina whitei
Type specimen: Its type locality is Vicksburg, which is in a Rupelian marine marl in the Byram Marl Formation of Mississippi
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution: found only at Vicksburg
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