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Parvilucina

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	95177	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=95177

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Lucinida : Lucinidae : Parvilucina

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Bivalvia	Linnaeus 1758
-	Eubivalvia	Carter 2011
subclass	Autobranchia
infraclass	Heteroconchia
-	Cardiomorphi	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardioni	Ferussac 1822
-	Lucinidia	Gray 1854
order	Lucinida
superfamily	Lucinoidea	Fleming 1828
family	Lucinidae	Fleming 1828
genus	Parvilucina	(Dall 1901)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Parvilucina	subgenus	belongs to Phacoides	second hand	Dall, 1901
Parvilucina	subgenus	belongs to Phacoides	stated with evidence	Glenn, 1904
Parvilucina	subgenus	belongs to Phacoides	stated without evidence	Oldroyd, 1925
Parvilucina	subgenus	belongs to Lucina	stated without evidence	Pilsbry and Olsson, 1941
Parvilucina	subgenus	belongs to Phacoides	stated with evidence	Gardner, 1943
Parvilucina	genus	belongs to Lucininae	stated with evidence	Cox et al., 1969
Parvilucina	subgenus	belongs to Lucina	stated without evidence	Dockery, 1982
Parvilucina	genus	belongs to Lucinidae	stated with evidence	Ward and Blackwelder, 1987
Parvilucina	subgenus	belongs to Lucina	stated without evidence	Perrilliat, 1992
Parvilucina	genus	belongs to Veneroida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Parvilucina	genus	belongs to Lucinidae	stated with evidence	Coan and Valentich-Scott, 2012

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

6 (33%)

First Recorded Appearance

113 - 101 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Parvilucina)

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

chemosymbiotic (based on Parvilucina)

Ecospace Comments

LIFE HISTORY: IS, MA, UN, DC according to Todd (2001).

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Lucinidae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Parvilucina (Callucinella) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)	3	56.0 Ma Paleocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Parvilucina (Parvilucina) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)
Lucina (Parvilucina) callosana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Lucina (Parvilucina) posteocurta ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	32	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Parvilucina approximata species	listed (PBDB)	2	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Parvilucina costata species	listed (PBDB)	23	3.60 Ma Pliocene	0 Ma Extant
Parvilucina crenella species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	7	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Parvilucina crenulata species	listed (PBDB)	51	23.0 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Parvilucina mazatlanica species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Parvilucina multistriata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	58	11.6 Ma Miocene	0.01 Ma Pleistocene
Parvilucina pusilla ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	4	47.8 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Parvilucina seminulum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	4	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Parvilucina tenuisculpta species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	12	3.60 Ma Pliocene	0 Ma Extant
Parvilucina yaquensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	10	23.0 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Phacoides (Parvilucina) prunus species	listed (PBDB)	1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1901	Phacoides (Parvilucina) Dall p. 810
1904	Phacoides (Parvilucina) Glenn p. 340
1914	Phacoides (Parvilucina) Cossmann p. 87
1925	Phacoides (Parvilucina) Oldroyd p. 5
1941	Lucina (Parvilucina) Pilsbry and Olsson p. 9
1943	Phacoides (Parvilucina) Gardner pp. 76, 78
1969	Parvilucina Cox et al. p. 498

Year	Name and Author
1980	Parvilucina Vokes p. 102
1982	Lucina (Parvilucina) Dockery p. 56
1987	Parvilucina Ward and Blackwelder p. 130
1992	Lucina (Parvilucina) Perrilliat p. 10
2002	Parvilucina Sepkoski, Jr.
2012	Parvilucina Coan and Valentich-Scott p. 354

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Glenn L. C. (1904) Pelecypoda, Maryland Geological Survey Miocene Text, 274-401

Oldroyd T. S. (1925) The fossils of the Lower San Pedro fauna of the Nob Hill cut, San Pedro, California, Proceedings of the United States National Museum 65 2535, 1-39 doi:10.5479/si.00963801.65-2535.1

Pilsbry H. A., Olsson A.A. (1941) A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador, Proceedings of the Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 93, 1-79

Gardner J. A. (1943) Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 199 A

Cox L. R., Newell N. D., et al (1969) Mollusca 6: Bivalvia, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology 1 N, N491-N952

Vokes H. E. (1980) Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue, Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue

Dockery D. T. (1982) Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Geology 123, 1-261

Ward L. W., Blackwelder B.W. (1987) Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 61, 113-283

Perrilliat M. C. (1992) Bivalvos y gasterópodos de la formacion Ferrotepec (Mioceno Medio) de Michoacan, Paleontologia Mexicana 60, 1-48

Coan E. V., Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve Seashells of Tropical West America. Marine Bivalve Mollusks from Baja California to Northern Peru, Santa Barbara museum of Natural history monographs 6, 1-1258

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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