Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Alternative spellings: Gryphaea (Gryphaeostrea), Ostrea (Gryphaeostrea)
Parent taxon: Gryphaeostreinae according to R. L. Squires 2018
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Casadio 1998, Gliozzi and Malatesta 1983, Maury 1936, Moore 1987, Morales-Ortega et al. 2016, Palmer and Brann 1965, Sepkoski 2002, Tashiro and Kozai 1982, Vokes 1980 and Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: Curvostrea, Gyrostrea
Subtaxa: Gryphaea (Gryphaeostrea) pernambucensis Gryphaea (Gryphaeostrea) trachyoptera Gryphaeostrea arduennensis Gryphaeostrea aviculiformis Gryphaeostrea callophyla Gryphaeostrea canaliculata Gryphaeostrea kochiensis Gryphaeostrea lateralis Gryphaeostrea sanjuanicus Gryphaeostrea vomer
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of France (1 collection), India (1), Italy (1), Libya (1), Panama (2)
• Oligocene of United States (2: Alabama, North Carolina)
• Eocene of Brazil (1), France (1), Italy (2), Mexico (2), United States (18: Alabama, California, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina)
• Paleocene of Argentina (6), Belgium (2), France (1), Poland (2), United States (14: Alabama, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (1), United States (7: New Jersey, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Angola (1), Argentina (4), Belgium (2), Bolivia (1), Bulgaria (1), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (6), Denmark (1), France (7), Gabon (1), Japan (1), Jordan (1), Kazakhstan (4), Libya (1), Madagascar (1), Mozambique (1), the Netherlands (1), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (8), United States (170: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, Tennessee, Texas, Utah), Venezuela (1)
Total: 286 collections including 293 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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