Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Synonym: Parahyotissa Harry 1985
Parent taxon: Pycnodonteinae according to M. C. Perrilliat 1994
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Freneix et al. 1988, Kiessling 2009, Lamprell and Healy 1998, Moore 1987, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001, Vokes 1980, Ward 1992 and Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: Gigantostrea, Hyotissini, Labrostrea, Neopycnodonta, Neopycnodonte, Neopycnodontini, Pycnodonte, Pycnodontini, Texigryphaea, Monticulina, Costeina
Subtaxa: Hyotissa aguaclarensis Hyotissa haitensis Hyotissa hyotis Hyotissa imbricata Hyotissa paraguanensis Hyotissa polylopha Hyotissa semiplana Hyotissa tryoni Hyotissa virleti Parahyotissa (Numismoida) Parahyotissa (Parahyotissa)
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Djibouti (2), Ecuador (1), Eritrea (1), France (1), Iran (1), Japan (3), Kenya (6), Mayotte (1), Mexico (3), Panama (1), South Africa (1), Spain (3), Sudan (1), Tanzania (1), United States (5: Florida)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Egypt (1), Malaysia (2), United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of Algeria (3), Colombia (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Egypt (2), India (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Panama (7), United States (11: Florida, South Carolina)
• Miocene of Algeria (4), Australia (1), Austria (8), Brazil (2), Colombia (4), Cuba (3), the Dominican Republic (1), Egypt (2), Fiji (1), France (1), Grenada (2), Haiti (10), India (3), Indonesia (2), Iran (3), Iraq (1), Japan (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (3), Pakistan (5), Panama (45), Poland (2), Somalia (8), South Africa (1), Spain (1), Sri Lanka (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (20: Florida, Maryland), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), Turkey (2)
• Eocene of Italy (1), Myanmar (1), Spain (1), United States (9: South Carolina, Texas)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), Poland (1)
• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (4), Belgium (2), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (3), Denmark (3), Egypt (2), France (3), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Kazakhstan (1), the Netherlands (1), Nigeria (4), Peru (3), Poland (8), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 263 collections including 267 occurrences
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