Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Full reference: N. W. Archbold. 1997. Studies on Western Australian Permian brachiopods 14. The fauna of the Artinskian High Cliff Sandstone, Perth Basin. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 109(2):199-231
Belongs to Occidalia according to J. B. Waterhouse 2004
See also Archbold 1997
Sister taxa: Occidalia mingenewensis, Occidalia plicatus
Type specimen: UWA 34309, a shell (Internal mould of shell and external mould of dorsal valve with ventral umbo and interarea). Its type locality is Glendevon Homestead, Woolaga Creek, Irwin River District, Perth Basin, which is in an Artinskian shoreface sandstone in the High Cliff Sandstone Formation of Australia.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Glendevon Homestead, Woolaga Creek, Irwin River District, Perth Basin
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