Lexic.us

Definition of Ostreidae

1. Noun. Oysters.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostreidae

Literary usage of Ostreidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"Other fossil shells besides those of the ostreidae are found to have been thus ... Not only did Cliona exist abundantly with the ostreidae of mesozoic time, ..."

2. The Lower Cretaceous Gryphæas of the Texas Regionby Robert Thomas Hill, Thomas Wayland Vaughan by Robert Thomas Hill, Thomas Wayland Vaughan (1898)
"Table of columnar sections across the State of Texas and in New Mexico and Kansas, showing the vertical range and position of the Cretaceous ostreidae. ..."

3. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1897)
"... very greatly differentiated and finally become extinct with the close of the period. Many other forms, such as Inoceramus, certain types of ostreidae, ..."

4. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"WHITE, CA A review of the Fossil ostreidae of North America, and a comparison of the ... Appendix I by Angelo Heilprin: North American Tertiary ostreidae. ..."

5. Outlines of Geologic History, with Especial Reference to North America: A by Bailey Willis, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"In the Ripley fauna on the other hand ammonoids and Inoceramus are relatively rare and the ostreidae, Veneridae, Cardiidae, and many types of gasteropoda, ..."

6. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"WHITE, CA A review of the Fossil ostreidae of North America, and a comparison of the ... Appendix I by Angelo Heilprin: North American Tertiary ostreidae. ..."

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