Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Alternative combination: Sphenotus meslerianum
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 Sphenotus according to J., Jr. Pojeta 1969
See also Girty 1910
Sister taxa: Sphenotus aeolus, Sphenotus altidorsatus, Sphenotus branneri, Sphenotus cataractes, Sphenotus cherokeense, Sphenotus dubius, Sphenotus gibsonense, Sphenotus hicksii, Sphenotus monroensis, Sphenotus oklahomense, Sphenotus pisinnus, Sphenotus quadriplicatum, Sphenotus solenoides, Sphenotus tentoriolus, Sphenotus tiogensis, Sphenotus washingtonensis
Type specimen: USNM 155901, a shell
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at USNM 3651A-C. along south bluff hill. (Carboniferous of Arkansas)
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