Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Alternative spelling: Ostrea (Exogyra)
Parent taxon: Exogyrinae according to S. Mendir et al. 2021
See also Bohm 1926, Bouchet et al. 2010, Hudson and Jefferies 1961, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Amphidonteini, Ceratostreon, Costagyra, Exogyrini, Fluctogyra, Ilymatogyra, Nanogyra, Nanogyrini, Nutogyra, Planospirites, Rhynchostreon, Vultogryphaea
Subtaxa: Exogyra (Aetostreon) Exogyra (Costagyra) Exogyra (Exogyra) Exogyra africana Exogyra americana Exogyra auriformis Exogyra californica Exogyra clarki Exogyra columbella Exogyra conica Exogyra contorta Exogyra davidsoni Exogyra ganhamoroba Exogyra griepenkerli Exogyra inornata Exogyra lancha Exogyra miotaurinensis Exogyra mutatoria Exogyra ostracina Exogyra overwegi Exogyra ponderosa Exogyra quitmanensis Exogyra reedi Exogyra scheibei Exogyra sergipensis Exogyra solea Exogyra tamaulipana Exogyra upatoiensis Exogyra wetzleri Exogyra woolmani Exogyra yabei
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Cyprus (2 collections), Somalia (2)
• Eocene of Egypt (2), France (2), Libya (3), Namibia (1)
• Paleocene of Denmark (8), United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (4), Algeria (9), Angola (1), Argentina (19), Bolivia (1), Brazil (2), Bulgaria (1), Cameroon (1), Chile (17), Colombia (5), Cuba (1), Egypt (23), Ethiopia (2), France (11), Germany (7), Greenland (2), Hungary (3), India (2), Iran (13), Italy (3), Jordan (1), Kazakhstan (3), Lebanon (1), Libya (2), Madagascar (2), Mexico (33), Morocco (1), Mozambique (9), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (3), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), Peru (22), Poland (4), Portugal (21), Serbia and Montenegro (1), South Africa (5), Spain (3), Sweden (2), Switzerland (2), Tanzania (3), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Tunisia (5), Turkey (5), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (28), United States (544: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississipii, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Venezuela (2)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (2), Argentina (1)
• Jurassic of Afghanistan (1), Chile (9), China (1), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (4), France (11), Germany (3), India (1), Kenya (6), Poland (1), Portugal (12), Somalia (3), Spain (4), Tanzania (3), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 920 collections including 1044 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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