Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Alternative combinations: Exogyra nana, Gryphaea nana, Nanogyra nana
Synonyms: Exogyra auriformis Goldfuss 1833, Exogyra bruntrutana Thurmann 1830, Exogyra eminensis Reed 1927, Exogyra fourtaui Stefanini 1925, Exogyra spiralis Goldfuss 1833, Exogyra vinassai Diaz-Romero 1931, Gryphaea mima Phillips 1829, Nanogyra fourtaui Stefanini 1925, Ostrea (Exogyra) quadrata Etallon 1893, Ostrea bruntrutana Thurmann 1830, Ostrea spiralis Orbigny 1847
Belongs to Nanogyra (Nanogyra) according to J. Koppka 2015
See also Cox 1935, Dacque 1905, Futterer 1897, Kiessling 2009, Kiessling et al. 2011 and Weir 1929
Sister taxa: none
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Germany (1 collection), the United Kingdom (4)
• Jurassic of Afghanistan (2), China (7), Cuba (2), Egypt (2), Eritrea (13), Ethiopia (12), France (83), Germany (12), Greenland (8), India (107), Iran (1), Israel (1), Kenya (8), Madagascar (2), Poland (1), Portugal (64), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (25), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Somalia (11), Spain (4), Switzerland (5), Tanzania (4), Tunisia (2), the United Kingdom (116), Yemen (16)
Total: 516 collections including 521 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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