Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Full reference: B.J. Chronic. 1949. Invertebrate paleontology (excepting fuslinids and corals). Upper Paleozoic of Peru 46-173
Belongs to Sphenotus according to J. Chronic 1953
See also Chronic 1949
Sister taxa: Sphenotus aeolus, Sphenotus altidorsatus, Sphenotus branneri, Sphenotus cataractes, Sphenotus cherokeense, Sphenotus dubius, Sphenotus gibsonense, Sphenotus hicksii, Sphenotus meslerianus, Sphenotus monroensis, Sphenotus oklahomense, Sphenotus pisinnus, Sphenotus quadriplicatum, Sphenotus solenoides, Sphenotus tiogensis, Sphenotus washingtonensis
Type specimen: AMNH 27019/1:1, a shell (Articulated shell). Its type locality is AMNH298, Bed 39a, Pasaje-Picchu Section 8, which is in an Asselian/Sakmarian marine limestone in Peru.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at AMNH298, Bed 39a, Pasaje-Picchu Section 8
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