Subfamily Ostreinae Rafinesque 1815 (oyster)

Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae

Synonyms: Tiostreidae Chanley and Dinamani 1980, Tiostreinae Chanley and Dinamani 1980

Parent taxon: Ostreidae according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011

See also Adegoke 1977, Beu 2006, Beu et al. 1990, Bouchet et al. 2010, Casadio 1998, Dockery 1982, Freneix et al. 1988, Gliozzi and Malatesta 1983, Marquet 2002, Moore 1987, Perrilliat 1994, Raith et al. 2016, Squires 1984, Squires 1987, Squires and Demetrion 1990, Stilwell et al. 2004, Vokes 1980 and Ward 1992

Sister taxa: Anulostrea, Booneostrea, Crassostrea, Crassostreinae, Denostrea, Kulunostrea, Laevostrea, Lophinae, Margostrea, Nicaisolopha, Notostrea, Oscillopha, Ostrea, Peilinia, Planostrea, Pulvinostrea, Quadrostrea, Saccostreinae, Striostreinae, Umbrostrea

Subtaxa: Amphidonta Avia Conradostrea Cryptostreini Cubitostrea Dendostrea Fatina Ferganea Flemingostrea Odontogryphaea Ostreini Ostreola Pustulostreini Sokolowia Undulostreini

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (3 collections), the Bahamas (3), Cayman Islands (1), China (1), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), Djibouti (1), Ecuador (1), French Polynesia (1), Haiti (2), Japan (2), Mexico (2), Panama (1), Peru (5), South Africa (1), Taiwan (1), United States (68: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (2), Yemen (1)

• Blancan of United States (3: California)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), United States (13: California, Florida)

• Pliocene of Chile (1), Colombia (2), Costa Rica (6), the Dominican Republic (3), Ecuador (6), Haiti (1), India (1), Indonesia (6), Jamaica (4), Mexico (26), Pakistan (1), Panama (6), Peru (1), United States (61: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (7)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Aruba (2), the Dominican Republic (8), the Netherlands Antilles (5), United States (1: California)

• Miocene of Argentina (7), Austria (4), Brazil (5), Bulgaria (5), Colombia (13), the Dominican Republic (4), Egypt (2), France (2), Germany (10), Greece (2), Haiti (2), Indonesia (3), Iran (2), Mexico (3), Moldova (3), Pakistan (3), Panama (14), Poland (3), Puerto Rico (2), Slovakia (12), Somalia (7), United States (18: California, Florida), Venezuela (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), United States (2: Florida)

• Oligocene of China (1), Libya (1), New Zealand (2), Puerto Rico (2), United States (3: California), Venezuela (1)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Haiti (1)

• Eocene of Belgium (3), Bulgaria (9), China (8), Egypt (13), France (7), Hungary (1), India (1), Japan (1), Libya (8), Mali (1), Mexico (9), Myanmar (1), Namibia (1), the Netherlands Antilles (2), New Zealand (8), Panama (1), Poland (3), Senegal (2), Spain (35), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Kingdom (25), United States (191: Alabama, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia)

• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (2: Louisiana, North Carolina)

• Paleocene of Argentina (7), India (2), Mali (2), Mexico (5), Pakistan (1), United States (30: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Virginia)

• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (3), Argentina (2), the Dominican Republic (1), Japan (2), Mexico (4), Pakistan (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (63: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas)

• Jurassic of France (1), New Zealand (2)

Total: 866 collections including 917 occurrences

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