Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Alternative combination: Ostrea cyathula
Synonym: Ostrea planicosta Deshayes 1832
Full reference: J. -B. Lamarck. 1806. Mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris (suite 6). Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 7:53-430
Belongs to Crassostrea according to R. Marquet et al. 2008
See also Favre 1917 and Gitton et al. 1986
Sister taxa: Crassostrea (Heterostrea), Crassostrea afra, Crassostrea alabamiensis, Crassostrea angulata, Crassostrea ashleyi, Crassostrea columbiensis, Crassostrea contracta, Crassostrea corteziensis, Crassostrea cucullaris, Crassostrea cuebana, Crassostrea cymaeformis, Crassostrea englekyi, Crassostrea eucorrugata, Crassostrea gigas, Crassostrea gryphoides, Crassostrea hatcheri, Crassostrea kawauchidensis, Crassostrea laperrinei, Crassostrea patagonica, Crassostrea raincourti, Crassostrea rhizophorae, Crassostrea rutiformis, Crassostrea sikamea, Crassostrea soudanensis, Crassostrea tectonica, Crassostrea tenera, Crassostrea titan, Crassostrea transitoria, Crassostrea vaquerosensis, Crassostrea virginica
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Belgium (1 collection), Bulgaria (2), Denmark (1), France (26), Germany (1), Hungary (2)
• Eocene of Bulgaria (6)
Total: 39 collections each including a single occurrence
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