Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
Full reference: E. H. Zimmerman. 1886. Ein neuer Monomyarier aus dem ostthüringischen Zechstein (Prospondylus liebeanus). Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen geologischen Landesanstalt und Bergakadamie zu Berlin for 1885:105-119
Belongs to Prospondylus according to T. E. Yancey 1985
See also Zimmerman 1886
Sister taxa: Prospondylus acinetus, Prospondylus chintongia, Prospondylus crassus, Prospondylus palliatus, Prospondylus shakhtauensis, Prospondylus zimmermanni, Pseudomonotis (Prospondylus) squamosa
Type specimen: Its type locality is Ranis-Crölpa road, Pössneck, which is in a Wuchiapingian marine sandstone in the Zechstein Formation of Germany
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Ranis-Crölpa road, Pössneck
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