Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Alternative combination: Gryphaea suborbiculata
Synonyms: Amphidonta columba Lamarck 1819, Amphidonte columba Lamarck 1819, Exogyra columba Lamarck 1819, Gryphaea columba Lamarck 1819, Gryphaea silicea Lamarck 1819, Gryphites ratisbonensis Schlotheim 1813
Belongs to Rhynchostreon according to S. Mendir et al. 2021
See also Barber 1958, Bobkova 1961, Cooper 1978, Furon 1935, Lamarck 1819, Malchus 1990, Musavu Moussavou 2017, Quarto di Palo 1970 and Schneider et al. 2013
Sister taxa: Rhynchostreon etalloni, Rhynchostreon mermeti, Rhynchostreon plicatulum, Rhynchostreon tombeckianum
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (2 collections), Algeria (6), Angola (1), Brazil (2), the Czech Republic (4), Egypt (42), France (8), Gabon (1), Germany (1), Jordan (2), Libya (1), Morocco (1), Spain (2), Tunisia (1)
Total: 74 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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