Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae

Full reference: I. Walaszczyk and W. A. Cobban. 2006. Palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Middle-Upper Coniacian and Santonian inoceramids of the US Western Interior. Acta Geologica Polonica 56(3):241-348

Belongs to Inoceramus according to I. Walaszczyk and W. A. Cobban 2006

Sister taxa: Inoceramus (Inoceramus), Inoceramus (Sphenoceramus), Inoceramus aequicostatus, Inoceramus albertensis, Inoceramus altifluminis, Inoceramus americanus, Inoceramus andinus, Inoceramus anglicus, Inoceramus anilis, Inoceramus anomalus, Inoceramus anomiaeformis, Inoceramus apicalis, Inoceramus arvanus, Inoceramus brownei, Inoceramus carsoni, Inoceramus corpulentus, Inoceramus costellatus, Inoceramus coulthardi, Inoceramus cuvieri, Inoceramus dominguesi, Inoceramus dowlingi, Inoceramus dunveganensis, Inoceramus elburzensis, Inoceramus elegantula, Inoceramus everesti, Inoceramus fibrosus, Inoceramus formosulus, Inoceramus fragilis, Inoceramus frechi, Inoceramus galoi, Inoceramus gibbosus, Inoceramus ginterensis, Inoceramus glacierensis, Inoceramus howelli, Inoceramus incelebratus, Inoceramus inconditus, Inoceramus kystatymensis, Inoceramus lamarcki, Inoceramus lateris, Inoceramus mesabiensis, Inoceramus morii, Inoceramus multiformis, Inoceramus mytiliformis, Inoceramus nipponicus, Inoceramus pictus, Inoceramus pontoni, Inoceramus porrectus, Inoceramus prefragilis, Inoceramus pseudolucifer, Inoceramus quenstedti, Inoceramus saskatchewanensis, Inoceramus selwyni, Inoceramus sokolovi, Inoceramus steinmanni, Inoceramus subdepressus, Inoceramus subundatus, Inoceramus tenuirostratus, Inoceramus undabundus, Inoceramus ussuriensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is USGS D12810, which is in a Coniacian marine sandstone in the Dalton Sandstone Formation of New Mexico

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder