Rostroconchia - Conocardiida - Hippocardiidae
Alternative combinations: Conocardium bellum, Hippocardia bella
Full reference: G. A. Cooper and P. E. Cloud. 1938. New Devonian fossils from Calhoun County, Illinois. Journal of Paleontology 12(5):444-460
Belongs to Fraipontia according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Cooper and Cloud 1938, Hoare 1989 and Pojeta and Runnegar 1976
Sister taxa: Fraipontia alatum, Fraipontia nodulosa
Type specimen: USNM 95192a, a shell. Its type locality is Salt Spring Hollow, about two miles north of the hollow south of Kritesville, which is in a Givetian carbonate limestone in the Little Cedar Formation of Illinois.
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Salt Spring Hollow, about two miles north of the hollow south of Kritesville
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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