Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Parent taxon: Gryphaeidae according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Argutostrea, Circunula, Exogyrinae, Gryphaeostreinae, Pycnodonteinae, Radiolaewellinae
Subtaxa: Africogryphaea Deltoideum Gryphaea Liostrea Pernostrea Praeexogyra
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Bulgaria (8 collections), Colombia (1), Egypt (2), France (1), Libya (4), Romania (9), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Paleocene of Bulgaria (1), Egypt (1), Libya (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (3: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (4), Cameroon (1), Chile (3), the Congo-Brazzaville (1), Japan (2), Kazakhstan (1), Kyrgyzstan (4), Madagascar (1), Mexico (9), Mozambique (8), New Zealand (3), Portugal (3), the Russian Federation (25), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (69: Alabama, Arizona, California, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas), Uzbekistan (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Chile (1)
• Jurassic of Afghanistan (1), Argentina (4), Belgium (1), Bulgaria (12), Canada (21: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (136), China (29), Cuba (4), Denmark (5), Egypt (1), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (10), France (133), Germany (63), Greenland (112), Hungary (2), India (55), Italy (8), Japan (3), Jordan (7), Kenya (12), Lebanon (1), Luxembourg (5), Madagascar (12), Mexico (1), New Zealand (4), Poland (9), Portugal (72), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (15), Saudi Arabia (60), Serbia (2), Slovakia (3), Somalia (16), Spain (183), Sweden (1), Switzerland (2), Tanzania (23), Tunisia (42), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (201), United States (181: Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Wyoming ), Yemen (20)
• Triassic to Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of Argentina (4), Austria (14), Canada (6: British Columbia), Chile (4), China (1), France (7), Germany (1), Italy (4), Japan (1), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (15), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (4), the United Kingdom (6), United States (20: Alaska, Nevada, Oregon)
Total: 1745 collections including 2101 occurrences