Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Parent taxon: Ostreidae according to S. Mendir et al. 2021
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Carter et al. 2011, Dockery 1982, Moore 1987, Raith et al. 2016, Rosenberg et al. 2006 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Anulostrea, Booneostrea, Crassostrea, Crassostreinae, Denostrea, Kulunostrea, Laevostrea, Margostrea, Nicaisolopha, Notostrea, Oscillopha, Ostrea, Ostreinae, Peilinia, Planostrea, Pulvinostrea, Quadrostrea, Saccostreinae, Striostreinae, Umbrostrea
Subtaxa: Abruptolopha Alectryonella Arctostrea Cameleolopha Lopha Lophini Myrakeenini Oscillolopha Pseudoperna Rastellum
Type: Lopha
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Djibouti (1 collection), Eritrea (1), Iran (1), Kenya (2), Mayotte (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Yemen (4)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Egypt (1), Fiji (1), Haiti (3), Indonesia (2), Jamaica (2), Mexico (2), Portugal (1), Tanzania (1), United States (3: California)
• Miocene of Australia (2), Ecuador (1), Fiji (12), Haiti (5), Indonesia (3), Italy (2), Libya (1), South Africa (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1)
• Oligocene of Mexico (3), United States (46: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Bulgaria (1), Germany (1), Italy (2), Peru (4), United States (10: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (5), Algeria (10), Argentina (3), Azerbaijan (1), Belgium (1), Brazil (5), Bulgaria (1), Canada (3: Alberta), Cuba (1), the Czech Republic (3), Egypt (13), France (20), Gabon (4), Germany (2), Hungary (2), India (1), Iran (3), Italy (2), Japan (22), Kazakhstan (1), Lebanon (1), Libya (2), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Mozambique (1), the Netherlands (1), Pakistan (1), Peru (3), Poland (1), Portugal (16), the Russian Federation (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (5), Sweden (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Tunisia (2), Turkey (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (2), the United Arab Emirates (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (187: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming), Venezuela (4), Yemen (1)
• Jurassic of Canada (3: British Columbia), Chile (16), China (3), Egypt (2), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (3), France (57), Germany (3), India (5), Italy (1), Japan (3), Jordan (1), Kenya (16), Madagascar (2), Mexico (1), Morocco (2), Poland (2), Portugal (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Somalia (2), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), Tanzania (7), the United Kingdom (11), United States (11: Idaho, Montana, Utah), Yemen (3)
• Triassic of Canada (1: Yukon), China (21), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Italy (2), Mexico (1), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (2), the United Arab Emirates (4), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: California, Oregon), Vietnam (1)
• Permian of China (15), Japan (3)
Total: 691 collections including 749 occurrences