Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Synonym: Liogryphaea Fischer 1886
Parent taxon: Gryphaeinae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, McRoberts 2011, Meek 1864, Papier 2001, Ros-Franch et al. 2014 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Africogryphaea, Deltoideum, Liostrea, Pernostrea, Praeexogyra
Subtaxa: Gryphaea (Africogryphaea) Gryphaea (Bilobissa) Gryphaea (Catinula) Gryphaea (Gryphaea) Gryphaea accipiter Gryphaea arcta Gryphaea arcuata Gryphaea arcuataeformis Gryphaea avicularis Gryphaea balli Gryphaea bilobata Gryphaea brongniarti Gryphaea colombiana Gryphaea costellata Gryphaea cymbium Gryphaea distorta Gryphaea eversa Gryphaea gigantea Gryphaea keilhaui Gryphaea kenkerensis Gryphaea mccullochi Gryphaea mutabilis Gryphaea navia Gryphaea nevadensis Gryphaea obliquata Gryphaea orientalis Gryphaea pitcherii Gryphaea planoconvexa Gryphaea plicata Gryphaea stomatoidea Gryphaea wardi
Type: Gryphaea arcuata
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Bulgaria (8 collections), Colombia (1), Egypt (2), Libya (2), Romania (9), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Paleocene of Bulgaria (1), Egypt (1), Poland (1), United States (3: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Cameroon (1), Chile (2), Japan (2), Madagascar (1), Mexico (9), New Zealand (3), Portugal (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), USSR (3), United States (64: Arizona, California, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Chile (1)
• Jurassic of Argentina (4), Belgium (1), Bulgaria (9), Canada (19: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (133), China (3), Cuba (1), Denmark (4), Egypt (1), Ethiopia (8), France (97), Germany (49), Greenland (50), Hungary (1), India (33), Italy (2), Luxembourg (4), Madagascar (9), Mexico (1), Poland (2), Portugal (6), the Russian Federation (3), Saudi Arabia (56), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Slovakia (2), Somalia (12), Spain (182), Sweden (1), Switzerland (1), Tanzania (1), Tunisia (8), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (80), United States (80: Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming), Yemen (13)
• Triassic of Austria (1), Canada (6: British Columbia), Chile (4), Germany (1), Italy (2), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (15), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (4), United States (14: Alaska, Nevada, Oregon)
Total: 1047 collections including 1214 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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