The shell is wedge shaped and solid, and the umbo is pointed and fairly high. Although the food habits and reproductive biology of the clubshell are unknown, they are probably similar to those of other freshwater mussels. Freshwater mussels feed on organic particles, algae, and minute plants and animals, which they siphon out of the water. During feeding and respiration, females also take in the sperm that has been released into the water by males.
Fertilized eggs remain in the gills until the larvae develop.
When the larvae are released into the water, they attach and form cysts on the gills or fins of a fish host. The species of fish used by the clubshell is unknown. After the larvae's metamorphosis' are complete, they drop to the streambed as juvenile mussels. It existed in the Ohio River basin in the Ohio, Allegheny, Scioto, Kanawha, Little Kanawha, Licking, Kentucky, Wabash, White, Vermillion, Mississinewa, Tippecanoe, Tennessee, Green, and Salt Rivers. The reduction in the clubshell's range can be attributed to many factors.