Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Alternative spelling: Actinostrea
Synonym: Palaeolopha Malchus 1990
Parent taxon: Palaeolophidae according to M. Aberhan 2010
See also Bouchet et al. 2010 and Ros-Franch et al. 2014
Sister taxa: none
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 (51), 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: 569 collections including 677 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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