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Gyrostrea (Vatonnei)

Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae

Taxonomy

Gyrostrea (Vatonnei) was named by Malchus (1990).

It was assigned to Gyrostrea by Malchus (1990).

Subtaxa

Gyrostrea (Vatonnei) ouremensis, Gyrostrea (Vatonnei) roachensis, Gyrostrea (Vatonnei) vatonnei

Species lacking formal opinion data

Gyrostrea cellae, Gyrostrea cortex, Gyrostrea cunabula, Gyrostrea deletrei, Gyrostrea elhuyari, Gyrostrea garumnica, Gyrostrea longa, Gyrostrea pithiakensis, Gyrostrea rionegrensis, Gyrostrea stoliczkai, Gyrostrea subtrigonalis, Gyrostrea tadjikistanica, Gyrostrea thevestensis, Gyrostrea verneuili

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1990	Gyrostrea (Vatonnei) Malchus

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Bivalvia
—	Eubivalvia
subclass	Autobranchia	(Groblen 1894)
infraclass	Pteriomorphia	(Beurlen 1944)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Ostreomorphi	Ferussac 1822
—	Ostreioni	Ferussac 1822
—	Ostreata	Ferussac 1822
superorder	Ostreiformii	Ferussac 1822
order	Ostreida	(Fërussac 1822)
suborder	Ostreidina	(Ferussac 1822)
superfamily	Ostreoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Gryphaeidae	Vialov 1936
subfamily	Gryphaeostreinae	Stenzel 1971
genus	Gyrostrea	Mirkamalov 1963
subgenus	Vatonnei

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Subg. †Gyrostrea (Vatonnei) Malchus 1990

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†Gyrostrea (Vatonnei) ouremensis Choffat 1900

†Gyrostrea (Vatonnei) roachensis Fourtau 1917

†Gyrostrea (Vatonnei) vatonnei Peron and Thomas 1891

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

low Mg calcitef

Environment:

marine, brackisho

Locomotion:

stationaryf

Attached:

yesf

Life habit:

epifaunalf

Diet:

suspension feederf

Vision:

blindc

Created:

2007-09-26 08:05:58

Modified:

2009-08-18 19:34:53

Source: f = family, o = order, c = class

References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004, Steuber 2002

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Cenomanian to the top of the Santonian or 100.50000 to 83.60000 Ma

Collections (10 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	Egypt	Gyrostrea roachensis (185813)
Late/Upper Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Peru	Gyrostrea roachensis (62002)
Middle Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Kyrgyzstan (Batken)	Ostrea vatonnei (3805 3807 3808)
Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Nigeria	Ostrea vatonnei (3812)
Coniacian	89.8 - 85.7	Algeria	Gyrostrea vatonnei (185640)
Late/Upper Coniacian	89.8 - 85.7	Egypt	Gyrostrea roachensis (185828)
Coniacian - Santonian	89.8 - 83.6	Nigeria	Ostrea vatonnei (83018)
Santonian	85.7 - 83.6	Algeria	Gyrostrea vatonnei (185644)