Rostroconchia - Conocardiida - Bransoniidae
Alternative combinations: Conocardium aequicostatus, Lunulicardium aequicostatum, Pleurorhynchus aequicostatus
Full reference: J. Phillips. 1848. The Malvern Hills, compared with the Palaeozoic districts of Abberley, Woolhope, May Hill, Tortworth, and Usk. Memoir of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom 2(1):1-330
Belongs to Mulceodens according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Hind 1910, Phillips 1848, Reed 1927 and Stubblefield 1938
Sister taxa: Mulceodens denticulatus, Mulceodens eboraceus, Mulceodens foxi, Mulceodens jaanussoni, Mulceodens johnstoni, Mulceodens schneideri, Mulceodens sibleyense, Mulceodens wilsoni
Type specimen: NHM PL168, a shell. Its type locality is Proetus concinnus-Warburgella stokesii Assemblage, Much Wenlock Limestone, which is in a Homerian marine grainstone/lime mudstone in the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Proetus concinnus-Warburgella stokesii Assemblage, Much Wenlock Limestone
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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