Bivalvia - Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
Parent taxon: Ambigostreini according to S. Casadio 1998
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Devries 2019, Kosnik 2002 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Ambigostrea bretoni Ambigostrea clarae Ambigostrea dominici Ambigostrea pseudovillei Ambigostrea tripolitana Ambigostrea villei Cubitostrea tecticosta
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Paleocene of United States (2: Alabama, New Jersey collections)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (2), Algeria (3), Argentina (18), Brazil (1), the Congo-Brazzaville (1), Egypt (17), India (1), Jordan (1), Kazakhstan (1), Libya (2), Madagascar (1), Peru (5), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Tunisia (3), United States (252: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 313 collections including 335 occurrences
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