Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Synonym: Ceratostreoninae Vialov 1983
Parent taxon: Gryphaeidae according to S. Mendir et al. 2021
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Carter et al. 2011, Gliozzi and Malatesta 1983, Hayami 1975, Moore 1987, Stilwell 1998 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Argutostrea, Circunula, Gryphaeinae, Gryphaeostreinae, Pycnodonteinae, Radiolaewellinae
Subtaxa: Amphidonteini Ceratostreon Costagyra Exogyra Exogyrini Fluctogyra Ilymatogyra Nanogyra Nanogyrini Nutogyra Planospirites Rhynchostreon Vultogryphaea
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Saudi Arabia (1 collection), United States (8: Florida, North Carolina)
• Pliocene of United States (15: Florida, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Miocene of Cyprus (2), Somalia (2)
• Eocene of Egypt (2), France (2), Libya (3), Namibia (1)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Denmark (8), Egypt (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (10), Algeria (18), Angola (4), Argentina (42), Austria (2), Belgium (3), Bolivia (1), Brazil (30), Bulgaria (1), Cameroon (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Chile (27), Colombia (5), Cuba (1), the Czech Republic (11), Ecuador (3), Egypt (119), Ethiopia (3), France (32), Gabon (1), Germany (18), Greenland (2), Hungary (4), India (2), Iran (21), Italy (4), Japan (14), Jordan (4), Kazakhstan (3), Lebanon (1), Libya (12), Madagascar (3), Mexico (36), Morocco (4), Mozambique (9), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (13), Nigeria (7), Oman (4), Pakistan (2), Peru (41), Poland (5), Portugal (50), the Russian Federation (2), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Slovakia (1), South Africa (5), Spain (18), Sweden (2), Switzerland (6), Tanzania (3), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Tunisia (8), Turkey (5), Turkmenistan (4), USSR (4), Ukraine (2), the United Arab Emirates (1), the United Kingdom (37), United States (533: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississipii, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (1), Venezuela (4), Yemen (5)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (2), Argentina (1)
• Jurassic of Afghanistan (2), Chile (64), China (8), Cuba (2), Egypt (2), Eritrea (13), Ethiopia (16), France (102), Germany (28), Greenland (8), India (108), Iran (1), Israel (1), Japan (4), Kenya (14), Madagascar (2), Mexico (3), Poland (3), Portugal (78), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (31), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Somalia (12), Spain (29), Switzerland (5), Tanzania (7), Tunisia (2), the United Kingdom (129), Yemen (24)
Total: 1971 collections including 2419 occurrences