Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Parent taxon: Gryphaeostreinae according to S. Mendir et al. 2021
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Cooper 2002, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Gryphaeostrea, Gyrostrea
Subtaxa: Curvostrea heinzi Curvostrea isidis Curvostrea rouvillei Curvostrea tevesthensis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (4 collections), Algeria (6), Angola (1), Brazil (5), Bulgaria (1), Egypt (29), France (1), Gabon (2), Germany (1), India (1), Kazakhstan (1), Libya (2), Madagascar (1), Morocco (1), Niger (1), the Russian Federation (1), Tunisia (3), Turkmenistan (1), USSR (4), the United Arab Emirates (2), United States (2: New Mexico)
Total: 70 collections including 83 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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