Exogyra


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Ex`o`gy´ra


n.1.(Paleon.) A genus of Cretaceous fossil shells allied to oysters.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The lobster Linuparus preserved as an attachment scar on the oyster Exogyra costata, Ripley formation (Late Cretaceous), Union County, Mississippi.
The first finding of Ostrea cf. puelchana (Bivalvia) living as epibiont on Callinectes exasperates (Decapoda)/Primeiro registro de Ostrea cf. puelchana (Bivalvia) vivendo como epibionte sobre Callinectes exasperates (Decapoda)
Observaciones.--Segun, Coan & Valentich-Scott 2014 esta especie ha sido confundido con la especie intermareal Chama exogyra Conrad, 1837, pero C.
La familia Chamidae (Bivalvia: Venerida) en Peru, con la adicion de cinco nuevos registros
The invertebrate macrofauna is of moderate diversity, with a dominance of pectinid (Neithea) and gryphaeid bivalves (Exogyra and Ceratostreon), and moulds of heterodontid bivalves tentatively assigned to Anisocardia, Protocardia, Fimbria, and Proveniella.
Dinosaur tracks from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) of Parede (Cascais, Portugal): new contributions for the sauropod palaeobiology of the Iberian Peninsula
The ecology of Mesozoic Gryphaea, Exogyra, and Ilymatogyra (Bivalvia: Mollusca) in a modern ocean.
Molluscan shell condition after eight years on the sea floor--taphonomy in the Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas
Faunal elements within this stratigraphic interval (upper part) include abundant Exogyra cancellata, a large oyster with a distinctly cancellated shell (Adkins, 1978).
Recent landsliding of Upper Cretaceous rocks near Dallas, Texas
Small (Protocardia striatula) Protocardia dyonisea protocardiids Fursich and Werner (1986) Region Lusitanian Basin (Portugal) Age Kimmeridgian Faunal community Mesosacella dammarensis--Corbulomima suprajurensis--association Free-reclining (Exogyra sp.) oysters Semi-infaunal Inoperna perplicata mud-stickers Small corbulids Corbulomima suprajurensis Small astartids Nicaniella sp.
Cambios del nivel del mar y extincion en masa: la respuesta de la fauna bentonica en el Toarciense Inferior (Jurasico Inferior) de la Peninsula Iberica
275) record the presence of abundant Exogyra in these sediments, while Callapez (1998) records an ammonite fauna that contains Vascoceras gamai and Euomphaloceras septemseriatum that indicate an equivalence with the Western European zone of Metoicoceras geslinianum.
Micropaleontologia y Estratigrafia del limite Cenomaniense/Turoniense en la Cuenca Lusitanica, Portugal
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