Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Alternative combination: Pleurophorus sonorensis
Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1953. Sponges, Brachiopoda, Pelecypoda, and Scaphopoda. Permian fauna at El Antimonio, western Sonora, Mexico. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 119(2):21-80
Belongs to Stutchburia according to M. E. Clapham 2015
See also Cooper 1953
Sister taxa: Pleurophorus pinnaformis, Stutchburia brasiliensis, Stutchburia compressa, Stutchburia costata, Stutchburia cuneata, Stutchburia dianensis, Stutchburia etheridgei, Stutchburia farleyensis, Stutchburia guangdongensis, Stutchburia hoskingae, Stutchburia hunanensis, Stutchburia jiangxiensis, Stutchburia modioliformis, Stutchburia muderongensis, Stutchburia obliqua, Stutchburia oblonga, Stutchburia pallasi, Stutchburia recta, Stutchburia sangallii, Stutchburia simplex, Stutchburia tschernyschewi, Stutchburia variabilis, Stutchburia veneris, Netschajewia elongata, Netschajewia svilajiensis, Netschajewia fenghaiensis, Netschajewia anshunensis, Netschajewia jiangsuensis
Type specimen: USNM 115575. Its type locality is USNM806i, Cerros de los Monos, El Antimonio, Sonora, which is in a Wordian marine shale in the Antimonio Formation of Mexico.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at USNM806i, Cerros de los Monos, El Antimonio, Sonora
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