Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae

Full reference: R. D. Hoare, M. T. Sturgeon, and E.A. Kindt. 1978. New Pennsylvanian bivalves and occurrences of Pseudoconocardium from Ohio and West Virginia. Journal of Paleontology 52(5):1023-1036

Belongs to Pseudomonotis according to R. D. Hoare et al. 1978

Sister taxa: Pseudomonotis (Aviculomonotis), Pseudomonotis (Prospondylus), Pseudomonotis (Pseudomonotis), Pseudomonotis (Trematiconcha), Pseudomonotis aurisculpta, Pseudomonotis beedei, Pseudomonotis boreas, Pseudomonotis caucasica, Pseudomonotis circularis, Pseudomonotis equistriata, Pseudomonotis fredoniensis, Pseudomonotis furcoplicatus, Pseudomonotis gigantea, Pseudomonotis hawni, Pseudomonotis immanis, Pseudomonotis kazanensis, Pseudomonotis leiyangensis, Pseudomonotis mongoliensis, Pseudomonotis nigricans, Pseudomonotis praecursor, Pseudomonotis robusta, Pseudomonotis sayrei, Pseudomonotis spinosa, Pseudomonotis subangulata, Pseudomonotis sublaevis, Pseudomonotis toulai

Type specimen: OSU 27327, a shell (left valve). Its type locality is CAr-2. Spoils bank at James Brothers strip mine on the south side of Huff Run, a, which is in a Missourian coastal shale/limestone in the Washingtonville Formation of Ohio.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder