Lingulata - Lingulida - Discinidae

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1986. New late Palaeozoic invertebrate taxa. Bulletin of the Indian Geologists' Association 19(1):1-8

Belongs to Orbiculoidea according to J. B. Waterhouse 1986

Sister taxa: Orbiculoidea anhuiensis, Orbiculoidea capuliformis, Orbiculoidea elegans, Orbiculoidea excentrica, Orbiculoidea interlineata, Orbiculoidea jangarensis, Orbiculoidea kolymaensis, Orbiculoidea linguliformis, Orbiculoidea magna, Orbiculoidea minor, Orbiculoidea minuta, Orbiculoidea missouriensis, Orbiculoidea nucleola, 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: NZGS BR 1180. Its type locality is GS1456, Steel's House Quarry, Clinton (G45/f9498), which is in a Changhsingian marine horizon in New Zealand.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): valve 6.00 x 6.23