Nanogyra Beurlen 1958 (oyster)

Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae

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

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Ronchetti 1970 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Amphidonteini, Ceratostreon, Costagyra, Exogyra, Exogyrini, Fluctogyra, Ilymatogyra, Nanogyrini, Nutogyra, Planospirites, Rhynchostreon, Vultogryphaea

Subtaxa: Nanogyra (Nanogyra) Nanogyra (Palaeogyra) Nanogyra auricularis Nanogyra crassa Nanogyra monoptera

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (8: Florida, North Carolina collections)

• Pliocene of United States (15: Florida, North Carolina, Virginia)

• Cretaceous of Germany (1), the United Kingdom (4)

• Jurassic of Afghanistan (2), Chile (55), China (7), Cuba (2), Egypt (2), Eritrea (13), Ethiopia (12), France (90), Germany (26), Greenland (8), India (107), Iran (1), Israel (1), Japan (4), Kenya (8), Madagascar (2), Mexico (3), Poland (2), Portugal (67), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (31), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Somalia (11), Spain (25), Switzerland (5), Tanzania (4), Tunisia (2), the United Kingdom (128), Yemen (24)

Total: 673 collections including 710 occurrences

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