Strophomenata - Productida - Productidae

Alternative combination: Dictyoclostus deminutivus

Full reference: P. E. Cloud. 1944. Part III: Permian brachiopods, in Geology and paleontology of the Permian area northwest of Las Delicias, southwestern Coahuila, Mexico. Geological Society of America Special Paper 52:49-69

Belongs to Yakovlevia according to G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant 1975

Sister taxa: Yakovlevia anterospinosa, Yakovlevia artiensis, Yakovlevia baiyinensis, Yakovlevia borealis, Yakovlevia californica, Yakovlevia complanata, Yakovlevia convexus, Yakovlevia costellata, Yakovlevia dimorpha, Yakovlevia duplex, Yakovlevia dzhiremulensis, Yakovlevia geniculata, Yakovlevia greenlandica, Yakovlevia hessorum, Yakovlevia immatura, Yakovlevia indentata, Yakovlevia intermedia, Yakovlevia kaluzinensis, Yakovlevia mammata, Yakovlevia mammatiformis, Yakovlevia multistriata, Yakovlevia paramammata, Yakovlevia sulcata, Yakovlevia talotica, Yakovlevia taxiensis, Yakovlevia timanica, Yakovlevia transversa, Yakovlevia unsinuata, Yakovlevia zyriankensis, Muirwoodia yujiagouensis

Type specimen: YPM 10648. Its type locality is Cerro Caballo, section 1, bed 14, Las Delicias, which is in a Wordian marine horizon in the Palo Quemado Formation of Mexico.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): valve 20.2 x 29.1