Aetostreon
| Aetostreon Temporal range: Jurassic–Cretaceous,
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| Aetostreon latissimum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Ostreida |
| Family: | Gryphaeidae |
| Subfamily: | †Exogyrinae |
| Genus: | †Aetostreon Bayle, 1878 |
Aetostreon is an extinct genus[2] or subgenus within the genus Exogyra[1] of fossil marine oysters in the family Gryphaeidae.[1][2]
Select species
[edit]- †Aetostreon latissimum (Lamarck, 1801)
- †Aetostreon pilmatuegrossum Rubilar & Lazo, 2009[2]
- †Aetostreon subsinuatum (Leymerie 1842)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "†Exogyra (Aetostreon) Bayle 1878". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ a b c Rubilar, A.E; Lazo, E.B. (2009). "Description of Aetostreon pilmatuegrossum sp. nov. from the Lower Cretaceous of Argentina (Neuquén Basin), and significance of the conservative left valve morphology in oysters of the genus Aetostreon Bayle". Cretaceous Research. 30 (3): 727–748. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2008.12.013. hdl:11336/92705.
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