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Oyster(s)

superfamily Ostreoidea Rafinesque, 1815

• Modern species
• Habitat: Marine - Brackish

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca, class Bivalvia, order Ostreoida

• Distribution
• Jurassic: Toyama
• Jurassic-Cretaceous: Fukui, Yamaguchi
• Cretaceous: Hokkaido, Iwate, Nagano, Saitama, Mie, Wakayama, Kagawa, Tokushima
• Eocene: Hokkaido, Okayama, Ehime
• Oligocene: Iwate, Fukushima, Nagano
• Neogene: Hokkaido
• Miocene: Hokkaido, Akita, Iwate?, Miyagi, Yamagata, Niigata, Nagano, Toyama, Fukui, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Aichi, Gifu, Mie, Shiga, Kyoto, Hyogo, Okayama, Hiroshima, Shimane, Yamaguchi, Kagawa
• Miocene-Pliocene: Nagano, Shizuoka
• Pliocene: Miyagi, Niigata, Chiba
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Nagano, Saitama, Kanagawa
• Quaternary: Hiroshima
• Pleistocene: Hokkaido, Aomori, Fukushima, Niigata, Nagano, Ishikawa, Ibaraki, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Aichi, Mie, Osaka
• Holocene: Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba, Aichi
• Investigation in progress: Saitama (Miocene?), Kyoto, Tottori

• Subtaxa
• Amphidonte subhariotoidea
• Crassostrea, genus
• Dendostrea rosacea
• Hyotissa inermis
• Lopha, genus
• Magallana gigas, Pacific oyster
• Magallana nippona, Iwagaki oyster
• Neopycnodonte, genus
• Ostrea, genus
• Planostrea pestigris
• Pycnodonte, genus
• Rastellum diluvianum
• Saccostrea kegaki
• Talonostrea talonata