Lingulata - Lingulida - Discinidae

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 Orbiculoidea according to Z. T. Liao 1984

Sister taxa: Orbiculoidea anhuiensis, Orbiculoidea capuliformis, Orbiculoidea clintonensis, Orbiculoidea elegans, Orbiculoidea excentrica, Orbiculoidea interlineata, Orbiculoidea jangarensis, Orbiculoidea kolymaensis, Orbiculoidea linguliformis, Orbiculoidea magna, Orbiculoidea minor, Orbiculoidea minuta, Orbiculoidea missouriensis, Orbiculoidea ovalis, Orbiculoidea platymitraformis, Orbiculoidea prietana, Orbiculoidea qieermaensis, Orbiculoidea qinglongensis, Orbiculoidea rotularia, Orbiculoidea sibirica, Orbiculoidea soyanensis, Orbiculoidea spitsbergensis, Orbiculoidea taskrestensis, Orbiculoidea tobaensis, Orbiculoidea utahensis, Orbiculoidea warthi, Orbiculoidea wyomingensis, Orbiculoidea yangkangensis

Type specimen: NIGP 43371. Its type locality is Zhongying Section Bed 39 (QZ-27), Qinglong County, which is in a Changhsingian coastal siltstone in China.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): shell 13.7 x 13.1