Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Parent taxon: Gryphaeostreinae according to S. Mendir et al. 2021
See also Casadio 1998, Cooper 2002, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Curvostrea, Gryphaeostrea
Subtaxa: Gyrostrea (Vatonnei) Gyrostrea antwani Gyrostrea anubis Gyrostrea besairiei Gyrostrea delettrei Gyrostrea hinchada Gyrostrea lingua Gyrostrea turkestanensis
Type: Exogyra turkestanensis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Indonesia (3 collections), Pakistan (5)
• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (3), Algeria (8), Argentina (3), Bulgaria (1), the Congo-Brazzaville (1), Egypt (27), France (2), Gabon (1), Hungary (1), India (1), Italy (1), Libya (3), Madagascar (4), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Mozambique (1), Nigeria (4), Oman (1), Peru (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (1), Tunisia (1), Turkmenistan (1), USSR (5), United States (9: Alabama, Georgia, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas)
Total: 92 collections including 115 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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