Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae

Full reference: R. D. Hoare. 2007. Bivalve mollusks from the Maxville Limestone (Mississippian) in Ohio. The Ohio Journal of Science 107(4):63-75

Belongs to Sanguinolites according to R. D. Hoare 2007

Sister taxa: Sanguinolites bisectus, Sanguinolites carbonaria, Sanguinolites drupa, Sanguinolites elongatus, Sanguinolites ishii, Sanguinolites kamiyassensis, Sanguinolites lukjanovae, Sanguinolites modiomorphoides, Sanguinolites naiadiformis, Sanguinolites obliquus, Sanguinolites olseni, Sanguinolites peruvianus, Sanguinolites shumardi, Sanguinolites simulans, 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: OSU 52491, a shell (left valve). Its type locality is Maxville Stone Co. quarry, west side of 0hio Rte. 668, ~1.1 km N Maxville, which is in a Chesterian/Brigantian carbonate limestone/shale in the Maxville Limestone Formation of Ohio.

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal suspension feeder