Gryphaea Lamarck 1801 (oyster)

Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae

Synonym: Liogryphaea Fischer 1886

Parent taxon: Gryphaeinae according to H. E. Vokes 1980

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, McRoberts 2011, Meek 1864, Papier 2001, Ros-Franch et al. 2014 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Africogryphaea, Deltoideum, Liostrea, Pernostrea, Praeexogyra

Subtaxa: Gryphaea (Africogryphaea) Gryphaea (Bilobissa) Gryphaea (Catinula) Gryphaea (Gryphaea) Gryphaea accipiter Gryphaea arcta Gryphaea arcuata Gryphaea arcuataeformis Gryphaea avicularis Gryphaea balli Gryphaea bilobata Gryphaea brongniarti Gryphaea colombiana Gryphaea costellata Gryphaea cymbium Gryphaea distorta Gryphaea eversa Gryphaea gigantea Gryphaea keilhaui Gryphaea kenkerensis Gryphaea mccullochi Gryphaea mucronata Gryphaea mutabilis Gryphaea navia Gryphaea nevadensis Gryphaea obliquata Gryphaea orientalis Gryphaea pitcherii Gryphaea planoconvexa Gryphaea plicata Gryphaea stomatoidea

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Type: Gryphaea arcuata

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Eocene of Bulgaria (8 collections), Colombia (1), Egypt (2), Libya (2), Romania (9), United States (1: New Jersey)

• Paleocene of Bulgaria (1), Egypt (1), Poland (1), United States (3: New Jersey)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of Cameroon (1), Chile (2), Japan (2), Madagascar (1), Mexico (19), New Zealand (3), Portugal (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), USSR (3), United States (63: Arizona, California, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Chile (1)

• Jurassic of Argentina (4), Belgium (1), Bulgaria (9), Canada (19: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (133), China (3), Cuba (1), Denmark (4), Egypt (1), Ethiopia (8), France (97), Germany (49), Greenland (50), Hungary (1), India (33), Italy (2), Luxembourg (4), Madagascar (9), Mexico (1), Poland (2), Portugal (6), the Russian Federation (3), Saudi Arabia (56), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Slovakia (2), Somalia (12), Spain (182), Sweden (1), Switzerland (1), Tanzania (1), Tunisia (8), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (80), United States (80: Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Wyoming ), Yemen (13)

• Triassic of Austria (1), Canada (6: British Columbia), Chile (4), Germany (1), Italy (2), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (15), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (4), United States (14: Alaska, Nevada, Oregon)

Total: 1056 collections including 1224 occurrences

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