Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae

Synonym: Edmondia cumminsi Beede 1907

Full reference: J. W. Beede. 1907. Invertebrate paleontology of the Upper Permian Red Beds of Oklahoma and the panhandle of Texas. Kansas University Science Bulletin 4:113-1171

Belongs to Edmondia according to Z.J. Fang 1987

Sister taxa: Edmondia aspinwallensis, Edmondia bellula, Edmondia crassa, Edmondia dubia, Edmondia elongata, Edmondia equilateralis, Edmondia gibbosa, Edmondia grandis, Edmondia guembeli, Edmondia hudsoni, Edmondia isocosmica, Edmondia multilamellosa, Edmondia nebrascensis, Edmondia netschajewi, Edmondia nodulifera, Edmondia omolonica, Edmondia ovata, Edmondia phosphatica, Edmondia pitkinensis, Edmondia prichardi, Edmondia suborbiculata, Edmondia suborbiculata, Edmondia tiesseni

Type specimens:

• Edmondia rotunda: Its type locality is Whitehorse Spring (Kansas coll), which is in a Capitanian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal sandstone in the Whitehorse Formation of Oklahoma
• Edmondia cumminsi: Its type locality is Dozier (KUMIP coll), which is in a Capitanian shallow subtidal dolomite in the Whitehorse Formation of Texas.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): valve length 7.83