Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Full reference: F. B. Meek and F.V. Hayden. 1858. Remarks oon the Lower Cretaceous beds of Kansas and Nebraska, together with descriptions of some new species of Carboniferous fossils from the valley of Kansas River. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 1858:256-264
Belongs to Allorisma according to F. B. Meek and F.V. Hayden 1858
See also Astaf'yeva-Urbaytis 1981 and Meek and Hayden 1864
Sister taxa: Allorisma albequus, Allorisma carniolicum, Allorisma consanguinatum, Allorisma costatum, Allorisma depressa, Allorisma dubium, Allorisma inflectoventris, Allorisma padangensis, Allorisma stachei, Allorisma tornquisti, Allorisma waageni
Type specimen: Its type locality is East for of Grasshopper Creek (= Delaware River) at Osawkee village, which is in a Virgilian carbonate limestone/shale in the Foraker Limestone Formation of Kansas
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at East for of Grasshopper Creek (= Delaware River) at Osawkee village
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