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Lucina (Here) dalli

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Taxonomy

Diplodonta dalli was named by Dickerson (1917). Its type specimen is CAS 398 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CAS loc. 181, Cowlitz River, 4mi E. of Vader, which is in an Eocene coastal sandstone/conglomerate in Washington.

It was recombined as Lucina (Here) dalli by Effinger (1938), Durham (1944).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Here wacissana, L. arenacea, L. bellona, L. chatfieldana, L. corbisoides, L. cutleri, L. frugalis, L. glebula, L. hasei, L. laevis, L. landanensis, L. leufuensis, L. limbata, L. masylaea, L. obliqua, L. prorrecta, L. ripleyana, L. seclusa, L. sesostridis, L. subporrecta, L. subprorecta, L. tenera, L. thebaica, L. kadievi, L. pectinata, L. micraulax, Phacoides parawhitfieldi

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1917	Diplodonta dalli Dickerson p. 171 figs. PI. 29, Fig. 8
1938	Lucina (Here) dalli Effinger p. 370
1944	Lucina (Here) dalli Durham p. 144

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Bivalvia
—	Eubivalvia
subclass	Autobranchia	(Groblen 1894)
infraclass	Heteroconchia	(Gray 1854)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Cardiomorphi	Ferussac 1822
—	Cardioni	Ferussac 1822
—	Lucinidia	Gray 1854
order	Lucinida	(Stoliczka 1871)
superfamily	Lucinoidea	Fleming 1828
family	Lucinidae	Fleming 1828
subfamily	Lucininae	Fleming 1828
genus	Lucina	(Gabb 1866)
subgenus	Here
species	dalli	()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Lucina (Here) dalli Dickerson 1917

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitef

Locomotion:

facultatively mobilef

Life habit:

deep infaunalf

Diet:

chemosymbioticf

Vision:

blindc

Created:

2009-05-17 03:07:50

Modified:

2009-10-09 08:44:03

Source: f = family, c = class

References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Late/Upper Eocene or 37.20000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (3 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Eocene	56.0 - 33.9	Russian Federation	Here dalli (50078)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	USA (Washington)	Lucina dalli (40733)
Late/Upper Eocene	37.2 - 33.9	USA (Washington)	Diplodonta dalli (4900)