Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae

Full reference: G. H. Girty. 1910. New genera and species of Carboniferous fossils from the Fayetteville shale of Arkansas. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20(3):189-238

Belongs to Sanguinolites according to J. Pojeta 1969

Sister taxa: Sanguinolites bisectus, Sanguinolites carbonaria, Sanguinolites drupa, Sanguinolites elongatus, Sanguinolites hekitoensis, Sanguinolites ishii, Sanguinolites kamiyassensis, Sanguinolites lukjanovae, Sanguinolites modiomorphoides, Sanguinolites naiadiformis, Sanguinolites obliquus, Sanguinolites olseni, Sanguinolites peruvianus, Sanguinolites shumardi, Sanguinolites sphenoidalis, Sanguinolites unioniformis, Sanguinolites woolnoughi, Sphenotus branneri, Sphenotus dubius, Sphenotus meslerianus, Sphenotus tentoriolus, Sphenotus pisinnus, Sphenotus washingtonensis, Sphenotus monroensis, Sphenotus aeolus, Sphenotus cataractes, Sphenotus cherokeense, Sphenotus oklahomense, Sphenotus quadriplicatum, Sphenotus gibsonense, Sphenotus altidorsatus

Type specimen: USNM 155895, a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal suspension feeder