†subfamily Gryphaeinae Vialov 1936 (oyster)

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

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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), Madagascar (1), Mexico (19), Mozambique (8), New Zealand (3), Portugal (3), the Russian Federation (25), Trinidad and Tobago (1), USSR (4), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (63: Arizona, California, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, North Carolina, 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 (124), 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 (58), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Slovakia (3), Somalia (16), Spain (183), Sweden (1), Switzerland (2), Tanzania (23), Tunisia (42), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (192), 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: 1728 collections including 2086 occurrences

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