Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Rhipidomellidae

Full reference: A. N. Sokolskaja. 1965. Orthids, Strophomenids, Chonetids, and Rhynchonellids, in The Development and Change of Marine Organisms at the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic Boundary. Trudy Paleontologischeskii Institut 108:198-236

Belongs to Rhipidomella according to G. V. Kotlyar 1989

Sister taxa: Rhipidomella carbonaria, Rhipidomella caucasica, Rhipidomella cora, Rhipidomella corallina, Rhipidomella cordialis, Rhipidomella dzhuvankarensis, Rhipidomella hessensis, Rhipidomella hispidula, Rhipidomella kharaulakhensis, Rhipidomella miaolingensis, Rhipidomella michelini, Rhipidomella miscella, Rhipidomella obesiconcha, Rhipidomella orthogonia, Rhipidomella parva, Rhipidomella pecosi, Rhipidomella penniana, Rhipidomella pressula, Rhipidomella subcircularis, Rhipidomella uralica

Type specimen: PIN 2072/61. Its type locality is Vedi River, Khachik Fm, which is in a Capitanian carbonate limestone in the Khachik Formation of Armenia.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): valve 8.72 x 10.16