Rostroconchia - Conocardiida - Pseudobigaleaidae

Alternative combinations: Exalloschema batilia, Hippocardia batilia, Hippocardia batilla

Full reference: R. D. Hoare, R. H. Mapes, and C.J. Brown. 1982. Some Mississippian and Pennsylvanian rostroconchs from the midcontinent region. Journal of Paleontology 56(1):123-131

Belongs to Baiosoma according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Hoare et al. 1982, Hoare et al. 2002, Hoare et al. 1988 and Rogalla and Amler 2006

Sister taxa: Baiosoma cucullata, Baiosoma pala

Type specimen: Its type locality is East-west trending gullies on the east side of an unnamed tributary of Sycamore Creek on the Daube Ranch, which is in a Morrowan carbonate limestone in the Golf Course Formation of Oklahoma

Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at East-west trending gullies on the east side of an unnamed tributary of Sycamore Creek on the Daube Ranch

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