Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Alternative combinations: Crassostrea multicostata, Ostrea (Turkostrea) multicostata, Ostrea multicostata
Belongs to Cubitostrea according to P. Jeffery and S. Tracey 1997
See also Douvillé 1920, Glibert 1985 and Pacaud and Le Renard 1995
Sister taxa: Cubitostrea (Cubitostrea), Cubitostrea alvarezii, Cubitostrea ameghinoi, Cubitostrea californiana, Cubitostrea digitalina, Cubitostrea dubertreti, Cubitostrea elegans, Cubitostrea flabellula, Cubitostrea glucumarides, Cubitostrea gudexi, Cubitostrea lisbonensis, Cubitostrea mezquitalensis, Cubitostrea petropolitana, Cubitostrea plicata, Cubitostrea primordialis, Cubitostrea rugifera, Cubitostrea sellaeformis, Cubitostrea smithvillensis, Ostrea (Cubitostrea) cymbula, Ostrea (Cubitostrea) wemmelensis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Belgium (2 collections), Egypt (8), India (1), Libya (6), Mali (1), Senegal (2), Spain (35), the United Kingdom (3)
• Paleocene of Mali (2)
• Jurassic of France (1)
Total: 61 collections each including a single occurrence
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