Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Parent taxon: Exogyrinae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Ronchetti 1970 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Amphidonteini, Ceratostreon, Costagyra, Exogyra, Exogyrini, Fluctogyra, Ilymatogyra, Nanogyrini, Nutogyra, Planospirites, Rhynchostreon, Vultogryphaea
Subtaxa: Nanogyra (Nanogyra) Nanogyra auricularis Nanogyra crassa Nanogyra monoptera
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Germany (1 collection), the United Kingdom (4)
• Jurassic of Afghanistan (2), Chile (55), China (7), Cuba (2), Egypt (2), Eritrea (13), Ethiopia (12), France (88), Germany (12), Greenland (8), India (107), Iran (1), Israel (1), Japan (4), Kenya (8), Madagascar (2), Poland (1), Portugal (65), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (35), Serbia (2), Somalia (11), Spain (25), Switzerland (5), Tanzania (4), Tunisia (2), the United Kingdom (123), Yemen (24)
Total: 627 collections including 634 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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