Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Full reference: A. M. Cvancara. 1958. Invertebrate fossils from the Lower Carboniferous of New South Wales. Journal of Paleontology 32(5):846-888
Belongs to Spirifer according to A. M. Cvancara 1958
Sister taxa: Spirifer acutiplicatus, Spirifer bambadhurensis, Spirifer baschkirica, Spirifer battu, Spirifer battus, Spirifer bistritzae, Spirifer bisulcatus, Spirifer brandis, Spirifer byrangi, Spirifer concentricus, Spirifer crebristria, Spirifer dichotomus, Spirifer distefanii, Spirifer dvinaensis, Spirifer enderlei, Spirifer engelgardthi, Spirifer fayettevillensis, Spirifer holodnensis, Spirifer liangchowensis, Spirifer malistanensis, Spirifer octoplicatus, Spirifer opimus, Spirifer pentagonoides, Spirifer pentlandi, Spirifer piassinaensis, Spirifer postventricosus, Spirifer pseudotasmaniensis, Spirifer rakuszi, Spirifer rariplectus, Spirifer rockymontanus, Spirifer schellwieni, Spirifer siculus, Spirifer spitiensis, Spirifer spurius, Spirifer subgrandiformis, Spirifer subtrigonalis, Spirifer supracarbonicus, Spirifer supramosquensis, Spirifer tareiaensis, Spirifer undata, Spirifer uralicus
Subtaxa: Spirifer lirellus sol
Type specimen: Its type locality is Gloucester-Barrington, Lower Burindi Group, New South Wales, which is in a Tournaisian shallow subtidal mudstone in Australia
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder