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Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	97990	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=97990

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Lucinida : Lucinidae : Here

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
subfamily	Lucininae	Fleming 1828
genus	Here	(Gabb 1866)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Here	subgenus	belongs to Lucina	second hand	Gabb, 1866
Here	subgenus	belongs to Phacoides	stated with evidence	Dall, 1903
Here	subgenus	belongs to Phacoides	stated without evidence	Harris, 1919
Here	subgenus	belongs to Lucina	stated without evidence	Turner, 1938
Here	genus	belongs to Lucininae	stated with evidence	Cox et al., 1969
Here	subgenus	belongs to Linga	stated without evidence	Abbott, 1974
Here	subgenus	belongs to Lucina	stated with evidence	Perrilliat, 1992
Here	genus	belongs to Lucininae	stated with evidence	Coan et al., 2000
Here	genus	belongs to Veneroida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

3 (27%)

First Recorded Appearance

66.0 - 61.6 Ma
Paleocene

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Lucinidae)

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

chemosymbiotic (based on Lucinidae)

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
Here (Here) subgenus	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Here (Herella) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)
Here excavata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	23	38.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Here glenni ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	13	23.0 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Lucina (Here) aragoensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	41.3 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Lucina (Here) bolivarensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	41.3 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Lucina (Here) colombiana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	41.3 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Lucina (Here) edwilsoni ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Lucina (Here) hannai ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	48.6 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Phacoides (Here) hamatus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1866	Lucina (Here) Gabb
1903	Phacoides (Here) Dall
1904	Phacoides (Here) Glenn p. 336
1919	Phacoides (Here) Harris p. 112
1938	Lucina (Here) Turner p. 51
1944	Lucina (Here) Durham p. 144

Year	Name and Author
1969	Here Cox et al. p. 496
1974	Linga (Here) Abbott p. 458
1992	Lucina (Here) Perrilliat p. 9
2000	Here Coan et al. p. 263
2002	Here Sepkoski, Jr.

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

Harris G. D. (1919) Pelecypoda of the St. Maurice and Claiborne stages, Bulletins of American Paleontology 6 31, 1-208

Turner F. E. (1938) Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon, Geological Society of America Special Paper 10, 1-130

Durham J. W. (1944) Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 27, 101 -212

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

Abbott R. T. (1974) , American Seashells: The marine Mollusca of the Alantic and Pacific coasts of North America, 1-663

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

Coan E. V., Scott P. V., et al (2000) Bivalve seashells of western North America, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural history Monographs 2, 1-764

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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