Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kalenteridae

Full reference: N. D. Newell and D.W. Boyd. 1999. A new Lower Triassic Permophorus from the central Rocky Mountains. American Museum Novitates 3263:1-565

Belongs to Permophorus according to M. Hautmann et al. 2013

See also Newell and Boyd 1999

Sister taxa: Permophorus albequus, Permophorus angustus, Permophorus arcus, Permophorus bregeri, Permophorus complanatus, Permophorus costatus, Permophorus gregarius, Permophorus guangxingensis, Permophorus lianyuanensis, Permophorus mexicanus, Permophorus oblongus, Permophorus obovatus, Permophorus octocostatus, Permophorus pricei, Permophorus proprius, Permophorus rotundus, Permophorus shuangfengensis, Permophorus similis, Permophorus subcostatus, Permophorus subovalis, Permophorus tenuistriatus, Permophorus tropidophorus, Permophorus vendiavkiriensis, Pleurophorus tricarinatus, Pleurophorus occidentalis, Pleurophorus lunulus, Pleurophorus overbecki, Pleurophorus quinquecostatus, Pleurophorus imbricatus, Pleurophorus delawarensis, Pleurophorus meeki, Pleurophorus elongatus, Pleurophorus timoricus

Type specimen: AMNH 44088, a valve (Right valve). Its type locality is AMNH B7850, Commissary Ridge, which is in a Spathian marine limestone in the Thaynes Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.