Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Alternative combinations: Gryphaea vesicularis, Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesiculare, Pycnodonte vesiculare
Synonyms: Gryphaea proboscidea Archiac 1903, Ostrea hippopodium Nilsson 1827, Pycnodonta radiata Fischer de Waldheim 1835, Pycnodonta vesicularis hippopodium Nilsson 1827
Belongs to Pycnodonte (Phygraea) according to S. Mendir et al. 2021
See also Bobkova 1961, Böhm 1891, Dartevelle and Freneix 1957, Malchus 1990 and Malchus et al. 1994
Sister taxa: Phygraea badgeri, Phygraea haleyi, Phygraea lincolnensis, Phygraea newberryi, Phygraea pacifica, Phygraea stewarti, Pycnodonte (Phygraea) burckhardti, Pycnodonte (Phygraea) proteus, Pycnodonte (Phygraea) pseudovesicularis, Pycnodonte (Phygraea) sarmientoi, Pycnodonte (Phygraea) wratheri
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Austria (1 collection), Denmark (2), France (1)
• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (6), Algeria (1), Angola (2), Antarctica (6), Argentina (15), Austria (2), Belgium (1), Brazil (15), the Czech Republic (2), Denmark (1), Egypt (12), France (3), Germany (3), India (5), Italy (2), Jordan (1), Libya (5), Morocco (1), Oman (1), Poland (9), Portugal (2), Sweden (1), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (1), the United Arab Emirates (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (16: Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Tennessee)
Total: 122 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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