Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Rhipidomellidae

Full reference: G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1976. Permian Brachiopods of west Texas, V. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 24:2609-3159

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

Sister taxa: Rhipidomella carbonaria, Rhipidomella caucasica, Rhipidomella cora, Rhipidomella corallina, Rhipidomella cordialis, Rhipidomella dzhuvankarensis, Rhipidomella fortimuscula, Rhipidomella hessensis, Rhipidomella hispidula, Rhipidomella kharaulakhensis, Rhipidomella miaolingensis, Rhipidomella michelini, Rhipidomella obesiconcha, Rhipidomella orthogonia, Rhipidomella parva, Rhipidomella pecosi, Rhipidomella penniana, Rhipidomella pressula, Rhipidomella subcircularis, Rhipidomella uralica, Rhipidomella vediensis

Type specimen: USNM 150340a, a shell (Articulated shell). Its type locality is USNM705k, Leonard Mountain, Glass Mountains, which is in an Artinskian reef, buildup or bioherm limestone in the Lenox Hills Formation of Texas.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): shell 8.30 x 8.03