Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Parent taxon: Ostreidae according to M. Raith et al. 2016
See also Beu 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010, Carter et al. 2011, Griffin et al. 2005, Lam and Morton 2009, Lamprell and Healy 1998, Moore 1987 and Squires 2018
Sister taxa: Anulostrea, Booneostrea, Crassostrea, Denostrea, Kulunostrea, Laevostrea, Lophinae, Margostrea, Nicaisolopha, Notostrea, Oscillopha, Ostrea, Ostreinae, Peilinia, Planostrea, Pulvinostrea, Quadrostrea, Saccostreinae, Striostreinae, Umbrostrea
Subtaxa: Crassostreini Flemingostreini Helvetostrea Ostrea tayloriana Saccostrea Striostreini Talonostrea Turkostreini
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (3 collections), Ecuador (1), Egypt (1), Eritrea (1), France (1), Hong Kong (1), Iran (1), Mayotte (1), Mexico (6), Mozambique (1), Panama (2), Peru (1), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (5), Spain (1), Sudan (1), Thailand (1), United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (2), Egypt (3), Indonesia (1), Mexico (2), Pakistan (1), the Philippines (1), Spain (1)
• Miocene of Fiji (1), Indonesia (1), Japan (1)
• Oligocene of United States (3: California, Washington)
• Eocene of China (5), Egypt (2), Mexico (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (46: California, Oregon, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (3: California)
• Paleocene of Argentina (2), Colombia (2), the Netherlands (1), United States (2: California)
• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (2), Argentina (4), Belgium (1), Egypt (6), France (1), Germany (3), Kazakhstan (3), Libya (1), the Netherlands (2), Niger (5), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (6), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (1), United States (89: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (1)
• Jurassic of Switzerland (2)
Total: 244 collections including 250 occurrences