Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae

Full reference: T. A. Grunt. 1986. Sistema Brakhiopod Otryada Atiridida [Systematics of the Brachiopod Order Athyridida]. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 215:1-199

Belongs to Janiceps according to T. A. Grunt 1986

Sister taxa: Janiceps bipartita, Janiceps cadorica, Janiceps emarginatiformis, Janiceps ogbinensis, Janiceps papilio, Janiceps peracuta

Type specimen: PIN 3599/380. Its type locality is Akhura, which is in a Changhsingian marine siliciclastic in the Ali Bashi Formation of Azerbaijan.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): shell 26.4 x 51.2