†subfamily Gryphaeostreinae Stenzel 1971 (oyster)

Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae

Alternative spelling: Gryphaeostreini

Parent taxon: Gryphaeidae according to S. Mendir et al. 2021

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Carter et al. 2011, Gliozzi and Malatesta 1983 and Squires 2018

Sister taxa: Argutostrea, Circunula, Exogyrinae, Gryphaeinae, Pycnodonteinae, Radiolaewellinae

Subtaxa: Curvostrea Gryphaeostrea Gyrostrea

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of France (1 collection), India (1), Indonesia (3), Italy (1), Libya (1), Pakistan (5), Panama (2)

• Oligocene of United States (2: Alabama, North Carolina)

• Eocene of Brazil (1), France (1), Italy (2), Mexico (2), United States (18: Alabama, California, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina)

• Paleocene of Argentina (6), Belgium (2), France (1), Poland (2), United States (14: Alabama, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (1), United States (7: New Jersey, Texas)

• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (6), Algeria (9), Angola (2), Argentina (6), Belgium (2), Bolivia (1), Brazil (5), Bulgaria (1), Colombia (1), the Congo-Brazzaville (1), the Czech Republic (6), Denmark (1), Egypt (48), France (9), Gabon (2), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Jordan (1), Kazakhstan (4), Libya (3), Madagascar (4), Mexico (1), Morocco (2), Mozambique (1), the Netherlands (1), Niger (1), Nigeria (4), Oman (1), Peru (2), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (1), Tunisia (3), Turkmenistan (1), USSR (7), the United Arab Emirates (2), the United Kingdom (8), United States (179: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah), Venezuela (1)

Total: 413 collections including 491 occurrences

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