Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae

Alternative combination: Ostrea angermanni

Full reference: L. G. Hertlein and E. K. Jordan. 1927. Paleontology of the Miocene of Lower California. Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences 16(19):605-647

Belongs to Dendostrea according to E. J. Moore 1987

See also Hertlein and Jordan 1927

Sister taxa: Dendostrea crenulifera, Dendostrea folium, Dendostrea frons, Dendostrea sandvichensis, Dendostrea vespertina, Dendrostrea frons

Type specimen: LSJU 59, a shell. Its type locality is LSJU Loc. 59, San Gregorio Lagoon, which is in a Miocene marine sandstone in the Isidro Formation of Mexico.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at LSJU Loc. 59, San Gregorio Lagoon

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