Strophomenata - Productida - Aulostegidae

Full reference: L. Lee and F. Gu. 1980. Carboniferous and Permian Brachiopoda. Paleontological Atlas of Northeast China 1:327-428

Belongs to Urushtenia according to L. Lee and F. Gu 1980

Sister taxa: Urushtenia arguta, Urushtenia grandicosta, Urushtenia khmeriana, Urushtenia murina, Urushtenia paramaceus, Urushtenia permica, Urushtenia pseudomedusa, Urushtenia yanjiensis, Urushtenia zhongbaensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Zhagan Chulu, Undivided, Bayan Wulan, Jalaid Qi, which is in a Wordian/Capitanian marine horizon in China

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder