Rostroconchia - Conocardiida - Hippocardiidae
Alternative combinations: Conocardium ornata, Conocardium ornatum
Full reference: A. Winchell and O. Marcy. 1866. Enumeration of fossils collected in the Niagara limestone at Chicago, Illinois, with descriptions of several new species. Boston Society of Natural History, Memoirs 1:81-114
Belongs to Hippocardia according to R. D. Hoare 1989
See also Cleland 1911 and Winchell and Marcy 1866
Sister taxa: Hippocardia alborza, Hippocardia angelicum, Hippocardia bellulus, Hippocardia crenata, Hippocardia cumberlandiae, Hippocardia curta, Hippocardia herculea, Hippocardia herricki, Hippocardia hibernica, Hippocardia hydei, Hippocardia hystericum, Hippocardia intersculpta, Hippocardia kermani, Hippocardia konincki, Hippocardia monroica, Hippocardia mundulum, Hippocardia niagarense, Hippocardia obesum, Hippocardia ohioense, Hippocardia pristis, Hippocardia procumbens, Hippocardia pulchellum, Hippocardia reflexa, Hippocardia rhenana, Hippocardia tournaisense, Hippocardia truncata, Hippocardia ventricosum, Pleurorhynchus longipennis, Pleurorhynchus bellulus
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Hippocardia ornata in the database
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