Gastropoda - Prosobranchia - Orthonematidae

Full reference: A. N. Sayre. 1930. The fauna of the Drum Limestone of Kansas and western Missouri. Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin 17:75-203

Belongs to Orthonema according to J. B. Knight 1934

Sister taxa: Orthonema amissidecoris, Orthonema ascensus, Orthonema borovskensis, Orthonema carbonaria, Orthonema cochleoides, Orthonema frequens, Orthonema hulusitaiensis, Orthonema illineatus, Orthonema inornatum, Orthonema knighti, Orthonema marvinwelleri, Orthonema nakazawai, Orthonema nebrascense, Orthonema paedice, Orthonema panxianensis, Orthonema paulum, Orthonema paxillus, Orthonema pygmaeum, Orthonema rectimurum, Orthonema salteri, Orthonema sayrei, Orthonema semiornatum, Orthonema silinae, Orthonema simplex, Orthonema socorroense, Orthonema striatonodosum, Orthonema strigatum, Orthonema subtaeniatum, Orthonema telescopiforme, Orthonema tirusum, Orthonema tricingulatum, Orthonema youngianum

Type specimen: U. Kansas Coll., a shell.

Ecology: epifaunal

Average measurements (in mm): shell 7.40 x 2.50