Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae

Full reference: V. Diaz-Romero. 1931. Contributo allo studio della fauna Giurese della Dancalia centrale [The Jurassic fauna of the central Danakil]. Palaeontographia Italica 31:1-61

Belongs to Lopha according to V. Diaz-Romero 1931

Sister taxa: Lopha (Actinostreon), Lopha (Arctostrea), Lopha (Lopha), Lopha (Rastellum), Lopha blanfordi, Lopha chlamydoides, Lopha costata, Lopha cotteaui, Lopha cristagalli, Lopha dageensis, Lopha dieneri, Lopha engelmanni, Lopha eos, Lopha euzebioi, Lopha haidingeriana, Lopha lombardi, Lopha longifolium, Lopha mesenterica, Lopha murakamii, Lopha papieri, Lopha radiata, Lopha simplexa, Lopha staufferi, Lopha syphax, Lopha teranosawensis, Lopha vascularis, Lopha vulsa, Lopha wulanwulaensis, Ostrea (Lopha) guppyi, Ostrea (Lopha) hyotiformis, Ostrea (Lopha) larva, Ostrea (Lopha) paramegodon, Ostrea (Lopha) sechura, Ostrea (Lopha) ucheensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Dara, which is in an Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian shallow subtidal limestone in Eritrea

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Dara

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