Lucina (Lucinisca) varisculpta Dockery 1982 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Full reference: D. T. Dockery. 1982. Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi. Mississippi Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Geology 123:1-261

Belongs to Lucina (Lucinisca) according to D. T. Dockery 1982

Sister taxa: Lucina (Lucinisca) fausta, Lucina (Lucinisca) fluctivaga, Lucina (Lucinisca) menuda, Lucinisca bocasensis, Lucinisca calhounensis, Lucinisca centrifuga, Lucinisca costaricensis, Lucinisca cribrarius, Lucinisca fenestrata, Lucinisca hispaniolana, Lucinisca mirandana, Lucinisca muricata, Lucinisca nassula, Lucinisca nuttalli, Lucinisca protista

Type specimen: USNM 340446, a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal chemosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Oligocene of United States (24: Mississippi collections)

Total: 24 collections each including a single occurrence

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