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Ostreoidea

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	89008	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=89008

Rank

superfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Ostreida : Ostreoidea

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Bivalvia	Linnaeus 1758
-	Eubivalvia	Carter 2011
subclass	Autobranchia
infraclass	Pteriomorphia
-	Ostreomorphi	Ferussac 1822
-	Ostreioni	Ferussac 1822
-	Ostreata	Ferussac 1822
superorder	Ostreiformii	Ferussac 1822
order	Ostreida
suborder	Ostreidina
superfamily	Ostreoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ostreoidea	superfamily	belongs to Ostreina	stated with evidence	Ward, 1992
Ostreoidea	superfamily	belongs to Ostreoida	stated without evidence	Todd, 2001
Ostreoidea	superfamily	belongs to Ostreina	stated with evidence	Cooper, 2002
Ostreoidea	superfamily	belongs to Ostreina	stated without evidence	Stilwell et al., 2004
Ostreoidea	superfamily	belongs to Pterioida	stated with evidence	Bieler and Mikkelsen, 2006
Ostreoidea	superfamily	belongs to Mytiloida	implied	Nevesskaja, 2009
Ostreoidea	superfamily	belongs to Ostreina	stated without evidence	Lam and Morton, 2009
Ostreoidea	superfamily	belongs to Ostreida	stated without evidence	Bouchet et al., 2010
Ostreoidea	superfamily	belongs to Ostreidina	stated with evidence	Carter et al., 2011
Ostreoidea	superfamily	belongs to Ostreida	stated without evidence	Bolton and Portell, 2013

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

702

Extant Size (PBDB)

99 (14%)

First Recorded Appearance

279 - 272 Ma
Permian

Environment

marine,brackish (based on Ostreida)

Motility

stationary, attached (based on Ostreida)

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Ostreida)

Taphonomy

low Mg calcite (based on Ostreida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

H. E. Vokes. 1980. Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue. Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Arctostreidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		102	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Chondrotidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Eligmidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		165	174 Ma Middle Jurassic	161 Ma Jurassic
Flemingostreidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		466	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Gryphaeidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5,866	242 Ma Middle Triassic	0 Ma Extant
Ostreidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Oyster	5,829	279 Ma Permian	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1815	Ostreacea Rafinesque
1904	Ostracea Glenn p. 380
1957	Ostreacea Rivera p. 191
1965	Ostreacea Newell p. 18
1980	Ostreacea Vokes p. 62
1982	Ostreacea Dockery p. 53
1983	Ostreacea Gliozzi and Malatesta p. 89
1984	Ostreacea Squires p. 44
1987	Ostreacea Squires p. 58
1987	Ostreacea Ward and Blackwelder p. 129
1990	Ostreacea Beu et al. p. 396
1992	Ostreacea Maxwell pp. 64, 69

Year	Name and Author
1992	Ostreoidea Ward p. 75
1999	Ostreoidea Ride et al.
2000	Ostreoidea Coan et al. pp. 211, 212
2001	Ostreoidea Todd
2002	Ostreoidea Cooper p. 28
2004	Ostreoidea Stilwell et al. p. 21
2006	Ostreoidea Bieler and Mikkelsen p. 229
2009	Ostreoidea Lam and Morton p. 482
2009	Ostreoidea Nevesskaja
2010	Ostreoidea Bouchet et al.
2011	Ostreoidea Carter et al. p. 8
2013	Ostreoidea Bolton and Portell p. 68

References

Vokes H. E. (1980) Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue, Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue

Glenn L. C. (1904) Pelecypoda, Maryland Geological Survey Miocene Text, 274-401

Rivera R. (1957) Moluscos fosiles de la Formacion Paracas, Dpto. de Ica, Sociedad Geologica del Peru Primer Congreso Nacional de Geologia Anales - Parte II 32, 165-219

Newell N. D. (1965) Classification of the Bivalvia, American Museum Novitates 2206, 1-25

Dockery D. T. (1982) Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Geology 123, 1-261

Gliozzi E., Malatesta A. (1983) I molluschi del Paleocene di Baixa Chinhauanine nel bacino del Rio Massintonto (Maputo - Mozambico), Geologica Romana 22, 85-145

Squires R. L. (1984) Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 350, 1-76

Squires R. L. (1987) Eocene molluscan paleontology of the Whitaker Peak area, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 388, 1-93

Ward L. W., Blackwelder B.W. (1987) Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 61, 113-283

Beu A. G., Maxwell P.A., et al (1990) Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand, New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 58

Maxwell P. A. (1992) Eocene Mollusca from the vicinity of McCulloch's Bridge, Waihao River, South Canterbury, New Zealand: Paleoecology and systematics, New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 65, 1-280

Ward L. W. (1992) Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America, Virginia Museum of Natural History 2

Coan E. V., Scott P. V., et al (2000) Bivalve seashells of western North America, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural history Monographs 2, 1-764

Todd J. A. (2001) Systematic list of bivalves in the Panama Paleontology Project collections, [http://eusmilia.geology.uiowa.edu/database/bivalves/systemat/bivaltax.htm#list]

Cooper M. R. (2002) Palaeolophid and liostreine oysters (Bivalvia: Ostreidae) from the Cretaceous of southeast Africa, with comments on oyster biostratigraphy and biofacies, Durban Museum Novitates 27 1, 28-60

Stilwell J. D., Zinsmeister W. J., et al (2004) Early Paleocene Mollusks of Antarctica: Systematics, Paleoecology and Paleobiogeographic Significance, Bulletins of American Paleontology 367

Bieler R., Mikkelsen P. M. (2006) Bivalvia - a look at the branches, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148, 223-235

Lam K., Morton B. (2009) Oysters (Bivalvia: Ostreidae and Gryphaeidae) recorded from Malaysia and Singapore, The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57 2, 481-494

Nevesskaja L. A. (2009) Principles of Systematics and the System of Bivalves, Paleontological Journal 43 1, 1-11 doi:10.1134/S0031030109010018

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., et al (2010) Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families, Malacologia 52 2, 1-184 doi:10.4002/040.052.0201

Carter J. G., Altaba C. R., et al (2011) A Synoptical Classification of the Bivalvia (Mollusca), University of Kansas Paleontological Institute Paleontological Contributions 4, 1-47

Bolton M. J., Portell R. W. (2013) A new species of Striostrea (Bivalvia: Flemingostreidae) from the upper Pliocene and lower Pleistocene strata of Florida, USA, The Nautilus 127 2, 65-77

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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