Rostroconchia - Conocardiida - Bransoniidae
Alternative combination: Conocardium peculiare
Full reference: G. H. Girty. 1910. New genera and species of Carboniferous fossils from the Fayetteville shale of Arkansas. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20(3):189-238
Belongs to Apotocardium according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Branson 1958, Girty 1910 and Pojeta 1969
Sister taxa: Apotocardium conolatum, Apotocardium cordatum, Apotocardium lanterna, Apotocardium latifasciatum, Apotocardium obliquum, Apotocardium plautum, Apotocardium polymitarium, Apotocardium pomachacanum, Apotocardium snideri
Type specimen: USNM 119981, a shell. Its type locality is USNM 3651A-C. along south bluff hill., which is in a Meramecian marine shale in the Fayetteville Formation of Arkansas.
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at USNM 3651A-C. along south bluff hill.
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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