Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Parent taxon: Gryphaeinae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Kelly 1984, Ronchetti 1970, Ros-Franch et al. 2014 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Africogryphaea, Deltoideum, Gryphaea, Pernostrea, Praeexogyra
Subtaxa: Liostrea arabica Liostrea birmanica Liostrea bourguignati Liostrea cellae Liostrea gauthieri Liostrea heinzi Liostrea jaxartensis Liostrea lehmanni Liostrea michailowskii Liostrea minor Liostrea multiformis Liostrea newelli Liostrea prima Liostrea roachensis Liostrea strigilecula Liostrea sublamellosa Liostrea tibetica
Type: Ostrea sublamellosa
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of France (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1)
• Paleocene of Libya (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2)
• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (4), Chile (1), the Congo-Brazzaville (1), Kazakhstan (1), Mozambique (8), Portugal (2), the Russian Federation (8), USSR (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (2), Uzbekistan (1)
• Jurassic of Afghanistan (1), Argentina (1), Bulgaria (6), Canada (2: Alberta), Chile (5), China (25), Cuba (3), Denmark (1), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (2), France (22), Germany (28), Greenland (89), Hungary (1), India (29), Italy (6), Japan (3), Kenya (8), Luxembourg (3), Madagascar (5), New Zealand (4), Poland (7), Portugal (28), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (11), Saudi Arabia (20), Slovakia (1), Somalia (1), Spain (3), Tanzania (11), Tunisia (29), the United Kingdom (74), United States (104: Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming), Yemen (3)
• Triassic to Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of Argentina (4), Austria (13), China (1), France (7), Italy (2), Japan (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (8: Nevada, Oregon)
Total: 618 collections including 650 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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