†Nipponirhynchia Yanagida and Nishikawa 1984 (lamp shell)
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Full reference: J. Yanagida and I. Nishikawa. 1984. Early Permian brachiopods from the Kawai Limestone, Hiroshima Prefecture, southwest Japan. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Series D, Geology 25(2):159-197
Parent taxon: Nipponirhynchiinae according to A. Williams et al. 2002
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Nipponirhynchia shutoi
Type: Nipponirhynchia shutoi
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder