Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1968. The classification and description of Permian Spiriferida (Brachiopoda) from New Zealand. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 129(1-3):1-94

Belongs to Spiriferellina according to J. B. Waterhouse 1968

Sister taxa: Spiriferellina aduncata, Spiriferellina aequiplicata, Spiriferellina altiplecusformis, Spiriferellina anguliplica, Spiriferellina bilotensis, Spiriferellina cambodgiensis, Spiriferellina cristata, Spiriferellina discoformis, Spiriferellina disparata, Spiriferellina elegantula, Spiriferellina enteleteformis, Spiriferellina hilli, Spiriferellina hochuanensis, Spiriferellina lata, Spiriferellina nasuta, Spiriferellina nasuta, Spiriferellina netschajewi, Spiriferellina nuda, Spiriferellina orientalis, Spiriferellina paucicostata, Spiriferellina pauciplicata, Spiriferellina pokrowskensis, Spiriferellina quadriplicata, Spiriferellina quantula, Spiriferellina rouxi, Spiriferellina tareica, Spiriferellina tricosa, Spiriferellina triquetra, Spiriferellina vercherei, Spiriferellina vescula, Spiriferellina yanagidai, Spiriferellina zewanensis

Type specimen: NZGS BR 1392, a valve (Dorsal valve, internal mold). Its type locality is GS6071, Letham Burn (D44/f9622), which is in a Capitanian marine horizon in the Mangarewa Formation of New Zealand.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder