GRYPHAEIDAE Vialov, 1936

Coan, Eugene V., Pacaud, Jean-Michel & Kabat, Alan R., 2024, Gérard-Paul Deshayes (1796 - 1875) and his taxa, Geodiversitas 46 (16), pp. 553-930 : 713-714

Family GRYPHAEIDAE Vialov, 1936

ambigua , Ostrea – Deshayes, 1832-DescrCoqFoss: 343-344, 24 [as O. “ dubia ”], pl. 51, figs 3-4; 1835-DescrCoqFoss: 811 [correction noted]; 1861-DescrCoqFoss: 97, as variety of Exogyra dorsata (J. Sowerby, 1825) [ Ostrea ]. — Type localities: Beauchamp & Valmondois. — Type age: Eocene (Bartonian). — Type material: UCBL-EM 35179, syntype from Beauchamp. — Current status: synonym of Crassostrea dorsata (J. de C. Sowerby, 1825) .

americana, Ostrea – Deshayes, 1832-EncyMeth: 304-305, non Defrance, 1821; 1836-HistNatAnim2: 207; 1843-HistNatAnim3: 78-79, the latter two as Gryphaea . — Type locality: Between Saint- George & Philadelphia, “ Delaware ”. — Type age: Cretaceous? Defrance’s species was a fossil from North Carolina, perhaps a synonym of Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791) [ Ostrea ] (D. C. Campbell, pers. comm., August 8, 2022). — Current status: most likely, Deshayes’ species was from the Cretaceous, perhaps a synonym of Pycnodonte mutabilis (S. G. Morton, 1828) [ Gryphaea ] (D. C. Campbell, pers. commun., August 8, 2022).

arenaria , Ostrea – Deshayes, 1832-DescrCoqFoss: 354-355, 28, pl. 64, figs 9-11; 1861-DescrCoqFoss: 97, as a form of Gryphaea defrancii Deshayes, 1832 . — Type localities: Beauchamp, Pierrelay, Pontoise & Creil. — Type age: Eocene (Bartonian). — Type material: UCBL-EM 35185, syntypes from Beauchamp. — Current status: Pycnodonte defrancii (Deshayes, 1832) (Pacaud herein).

cariosa , Ostrea – Deshayes, 1832-DescrCoqFoss: 337-338, 25, fig. 54, figs 5-6, 27, pl. 61, figs 5-7; 1836-HistNatAnim2: 248-249; 1843-HistNatAnim3: 93; 1861-DescrCoqFoss: 107. — Type localities: Chaumont-en-Vexin & Mouchy-le-Châtel. — Type age: Eocene (Lutetian). — Type material:UCBL-EM 35172, syntype. — Current status: Pycnodonte (Pycnodonte) cariosa (Deshayes, 1832) ( Glibert & Van de Poel 1965b: 67; Le Renard & Pacaud 1995: 85; Pacaud 2008: 82).

cucullina, Ostrea – Deshayes, 1863: 36, not figured. — Type locality: La Réunion. — Type age: Recent. Nominal type species (OD) of Booneostrea Harry, 1985 . However, the type species was misinterpreted by Harry (ICZN Code Art. 70.3), and the type species is now regarded as being Booneostrea subucula (Jousseaume, in E. Lamy, 1925) [ Ostreidae ]. — Current status: Deshayes species is a synonym of Neopycnodonte cochlear (Poli, 1795) [ Ostrea ] ( Huber 2010a: 185, 608).

cymbiola , Gryphaea – Deshayes, 1832-DescrCoqFoss: 329-330, 23, pl. 47, figs 4-6; 1836-HistNatAnim2: 206-207; 1843-HistNatAnim3: 78; 1861-DescrCoqFoss: 98, as Ostrea . — Type localities: Valmondois, Acy-en-Multien & Tancrou. — Type age: Eocene (Bartonian). — Type material: UCBL-EM 35186, syntypes from Valmondois. — Current status: Pycnodonte cymbiola (Deshayes, 1832) ( Le Renard & Pacaud 1995: 84) .

defrancii , Gryphaea – Deshayes, 1832-DescrCoqFoss: 328-329, 23, pl. 47, figs 1-2 [in text as “pl. 48”; vol. 2: 810, error noted]; 1836-HistNatAnim2: 207; 1843-HistNatAnim3: 78; 1861-DescrCoqFoss: 98-99. — Type locality: Marines. — Type age: Eocene (Bartonian). — Type material: UCBL-EM 35195, syntypes. — Current status: Pycnodonte defrancii (Deshayes, 1832) ( Le Renard & Pacaud 1995: 84) .

gryphina , Ostrea – Deshayes, 1832-DescrCoqFoss: 360-361, 27, pl. 62, figs 1-2; 1861-DescrCoqFoss: 113. — Type locality:Valmondois. — Type age: Eocene (Bartonian). — Type material: UCBL-EM 35184, syntypes. — Current status: Pycnodonte (Pycnodonte) gryphina (Deshayes, 1832) ( Glibert & Van de Poel 1965b: 68; Le Renard & Pacaud 1995: 85).

inaspecta , Ostrea – Deshayes, 1858-DescrCoqFoss: 85, pl. 83, figs 1-5; 1861-DescrCoqFoss: 100. — Type localities: Châlons-sur-Vesle & Muizon. — Type age: Paleocene (Thanetian). — Current status: Pycnodonte inaspecta (Deshayes, 1858) ( Glibert & Van de Poel 1965b: 68; Le Renard & Pacaud 1995: 84; Leroy et al. 2014: 27, pl. 10, figs 10-13).

inflata , Ostrea –Deshayes, 1832-DescrCoqFoss: 359-360, 26, pl. 58, figs 4-5, pl. 59, figs 1-2, non Gmelin, 1791, non (Lamarck, 1807)

[ Lima ]; 1832-EncyMeth: 293-294; 1836-HistNatAnim2: 252-253; 1843-HistNatAnim3: 94; 1861-DescrCoqFoss: 114– Type locality: Valmondois. — Type age: Eocene (Bartonian). — Type material: UCBL-EM 35177, syntypes. — Current status: synonym of Ostrea (Ostrea) gryphina Deshayes, 1832 ( Cossmann 1887: 193; Le Renard & Pacaud 1995: 85).

sublobata , Ostrea – Deshayes,1832-EncyMeth: 307. — Type locality: none given. — Type age: not stated. — Current status: Gryphaea sublobata (Deshayes, 1832) , recorded from the Jurassic of Great Britain (H. B. Woodward 1894: 561).

uniangularis, Ostrea – Deshayes, 1832-EncyMeth: 305. — Type locality: none given– Type age: not stated. — Current status: probably Gryphaeidae , but nomen dubium .

violacea , Ostrea –Deshayes, 1863: 35-36, not figured. — Type locality: La Réunion. — Type age: Recent. — Current status: synonym of Hyotissa numisma (Lamarck, 1819) [ Ostrea ] ( Huber 2015: chapter 5 on CD; Lutaenko et al. 2019: 191).

virgula , Gryphaea – Deshayes, 1831b: 90-92, 260, pl. 5, figs 12- 13, ex Defrance (1821: 26) ms, a nomen nudum. — Type localities: France, Germany & England. — Type age: Upper Jurassic. Deshayes’ well-known species name for this index fossil was conserved over two other earlier published names by ICZN Opinion 310 (1954d). — Type species of Palaeogrya Mirkamalov, 1963. — Current status: Nanogyra (Palaeogyra) virgula (Deshayes, 1831) ( Koppka 2015: 32-35, figs 13.3-4, pl. 8.3-8, pl. 9, pl. 10.1).

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rarilamella , Ostrea – Deshayes, 1860-DescrCoqFoss: 85, pl. 81, figs 1-2, pl. 82, figs 1-2; 1861-DescrCoqFoss: 109. Made available by Melleville (1843: 88-89 [42-43], unfigured). — Type locality: Laon. — Type age: Eocene (Ypresian). — Current status: Pycnodonta rarilamella (Melleville, 1843) .