Full reference: S. Bengtson, S. Conway Morris, B. J. Cooper, P. A. Jell, and B. N. Runnegar. 1990. Early Cambrian fossils from South Australia. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 9:1-364
Belongs to Anabarites according to D. I. Gravestock et al. 2001
Sister taxa: Anabarites compositus, Anabarites gracilis, Anabarites hexasulcatus, Anabarites kelleri, Anabarites korobovi, Anabarites latus, Anabarites licis, Anabarites missarzhevskyi, Anabarites sexalox, Anabarites signatus, Anabarites ternarius, Anabarites tripartitus, Anabarites tristichus, Anabarites trisulcatus, Anabarites voluta, Tiksitheca fangxianensis, Tiksitheca huangshandongensis
Type specimen: SAMP 30816 (tube). Its type locality is 6429RS111, L1852 - Horse Gully, which is in a Botomian carbonate packstone in the Parara Limestone Formation of Australia.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder