Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Alternative spellings: Crassostrea (Cubitostrea), Ostrea (Cubitostrea)
Parent taxon: Ostreinae according to M. C. Perrilliat 1994
See also Beu et al. 1990, Griffin et al. 2005, Le Renard 1994, Marwick 1960, Sepkoski 2002, Squires 2018, Squires and Demetrion 1990, Squires and Demetrion 1992, Tracey et al. 1996, Vokes 1980, Wienrich 1999 and Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: Amphidonta, Avia, Conradostrea, Cryptostreini, Dendostrea, Fatina, Ferganea, Flemingostrea, Odontogryphaea, Ostreini, Ostreola, Pustulostreini, Sokolowia, Undulostreini
Subtaxa: Cubitostrea (Cubitostrea) Cubitostrea alvarezii Cubitostrea ameghinoi Cubitostrea californiana Cubitostrea digitalina Cubitostrea dubertreti Cubitostrea elegans Cubitostrea flabellula Cubitostrea glucumarides Cubitostrea gudexi Cubitostrea lisbonensis Cubitostrea mezquitalensis Cubitostrea multicostata Cubitostrea petropolitana Cubitostrea plicata Cubitostrea primordialis Cubitostrea rugifera Cubitostrea sellaeformis Cubitostrea smithvillensis Ostrea (Cubitostrea) cymbula Ostrea (Cubitostrea) wemmelensis
Type: Ostrea cubitus
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Venezuela (1 collection)
• Pliocene of India (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (7), Austria (4), Brazil (5), Bulgaria (5), Egypt (2), France (2), Germany (10), Greece (2), Iran (2), Mexico (2), Moldova (3), Pakistan (2), Panama (2), Poland (3), Puerto Rico (2), Slovakia (12), United States (13: Florida), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), United States (2: Florida)
• Oligocene of China (1), Libya (1), Puerto Rico (2), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene of Belgium (3), Bulgaria (3), China (1), Egypt (13), France (7), Hungary (1), India (1), Libya (8), Mali (1), Mexico (8), Myanmar (1), Namibia (1), the Netherlands Antilles (2), New Zealand (8), Panama (1), Poland (3), Senegal (2), Spain (35), the United Kingdom (25), United States (177: Alabama, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia)
• Paleocene of Argentina (5), Mali (2), United States (1: Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Sweden (1)
• Jurassic of France (1)
Total: 402 collections including 425 occurrences
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