Strophomenata - Productida - Lyttoniidae

Full reference: Z. T. Liao. 1980. Upper Permian brachiopods from western Guizhou. Late Permian Stratigraphy and Fossils in Western Guizhou and Eastern Yunnan 241-277

Belongs to Leptodus according to G. V. Kotlyar 1989

Sister taxa: Leptodus cancriniformis, Leptodus elongatus, Leptodus guadalupensis, Leptodus hemisphaericus, Leptodus hoshanensis, Leptodus huangi, Leptodus kaluzinensis, Leptodus minor, Leptodus nobilis, Leptodus oldhaminoides, Leptodus ovatus, Leptodus richthofeni, Leptodus tenuis, Leptodus trapezium, Leptodus tumenlingensis, Leptodus wuchangensis

Type specimen: NIGP 43684. Its type locality is Bulang Section BM10, Puding County, which is in a Wuchiapingian marine horizon in the Longtan Formation of China.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): shell 27.4 x 30.1, valve 21.6 x 24.5