Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae

Alternative combinations: Pugnax elegans, Wellerella elegans

Full reference: G. H. Girty. 1908. The Guadalupian fauna. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 58:1-651

Belongs to Tautosia according to G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant 1976

Sister taxa: Tautosia angulata, Tautosia distorta, Tautosia expansa, Tautosia fastigiata, Tautosia galbina, Tautosia lenumbona, Tautosia magnisepta, Tautosia podistra, Tautosia pulchra, Tautosia shumardiana, Tautosia transenna, Tautosia zhinanensis

Type specimen: USNM 118565, a shell (Articulated shell)

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): shell 9.58 x 11.54