Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Alternative combination: Pleurophorus monroensis
Synonyms: Sanguinolites acutiliratus Croneis 1930, Sphenotus acutiliratus Croneis 1930, Sphenotus vulgaris Croneis 1930
Full reference: A. H. Worthen. 1884. Descriptions of two new species of Crustacea, fifty-one species of Mollusca, and three species of Crinoids, from the Carboniferous formations of Illinois and adjacent states. Bulletin of the Illinois State Museum of Natural History 2:1-27
Belongs to Sphenotus according to R. D. Hoare 1993
See also Busanus and Hoare 1991, Croneis 1930, Worthen 1884 and Worthen 1890
Sister taxa: Sphenotus aeolus, Sphenotus altidorsatus, Sphenotus branneri, Sphenotus cataractes, Sphenotus cherokeense, Sphenotus dubius, Sphenotus gibsonense, Sphenotus hicksii, Sphenotus meslerianus, Sphenotus oklahomense, Sphenotus pisinnus, Sphenotus quadriplicatum, Sphenotus solenoides, Sphenotus tentoriolus, Sphenotus tiogensis, Sphenotus washingtonensis
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (7: West Virginia collections)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
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