Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Alternative combination: Gryphaea suborbiculata
Synonyms: Exogyra columba Lamarck 1819, Gryphaea silicea Lamarck 1819, Gryphites ratisbonensis Schlotheim 1813
Belongs to Rhynchostreon according to S. Mendir et al. 2021
See also Cooper 1978, Malchus 1990, Musavu Moussavou 2017 and Schneider et al. 2013
Sister taxa: Rhynchostreon etalloni, Rhynchostreon mermeti, Rhynchostreon plicatulum, Rhynchostreon tombeckianum
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (6 collections), Angola (1), Brazil (2), Czechia (4), Egypt (42), France (8), Gabon (1), Germany (1), Jordan (2), Libya (1), Morocco (1), Poland (1), Spain (2), Tunisia (1)
Total: 73 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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