Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Alternative spelling: Actinostrea
Synonym: Palaeolopha Malchus 1990
Parent taxon: Ostreidae according to S. Ros-Franch et al. 2014
See also Bouchet et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Anulostrea, Booneostrea, Crassostrea, Crassostreinae, Cymbulostrea, Denostrea, Kulunostrea, Laevostrea, Lophinae, Margostrea, Nicaisolopha, Notostrea, Oscillopha, Ostrea, Ostreinae, Peilinia, Planostrea, Pulvinostrea, Quadrostrea, Saccostreinae, Striostreinae, Umbrostrea
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Germany (2 collections)
• Jurassic of Chile (117), China (11), Eritrea (7), Ethiopia (23), France (57), Germany (5), India (66), Iran (3), Italy (2), Japan (2), Jordan (3), Kenya (14), Madagascar (19), Mexico (1), Poland (8), Portugal (22), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (55), Somalia (7), Spain (24), Switzerland (5), Tanzania (2), Tunisia (54), the United Kingdom (31), Yemen (23)
• Triassic of Austria (6), Canada (1: British Columbia), Italy (1), Mexico (1)
Total: 573 collections including 687 occurrences
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