Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Parent taxon: Ostreinae according to E. J. Moore 1987
See also Lamprell and Healy 1998, Rosenberg 2005, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Amphidonta, Avia, Conradostrea, Cryptostreini, Cubitostrea, Fatina, Ferganea, Flemingostrea, Odontogryphaea, Ostreini, Ostreola, Pustulostreini, Sokolowia, Undulostreini
Subtaxa: Dendostrea angermanni Dendostrea crenulifera Dendostrea folium Dendostrea frons Dendostrea sandvichensis Dendostrea vespertina Dendrostrea frons
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (3 collections), the Bahamas (3), Cayman Islands (1), China (1), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), Djibouti (1), French Polynesia (1), Haiti (2), Japan (2), South Africa (1), Taiwan (1), United States (29: California, Florida), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (1), Yemen (1)
• Blancan of United States (3: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (11: California)
• Pliocene of Colombia (2), Costa Rica (1), the Dominican Republic (3), Haiti (1), Indonesia (6), Jamaica (4), Mexico (23), Pakistan (1), Panama (3), United States (20: California), Venezuela (6)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Aruba (2), the Dominican Republic (8), the Netherlands Antilles (5), United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Colombia (10), the Dominican Republic (4), Haiti (2), Indonesia (3), Mexico (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (3), Somalia (7), United States (5: California)
• Oligocene of United States (3: California)
• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 190 collections including 193 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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