Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Full reference: G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1975. Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, III. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 19:795-1921
Belongs to Rugatia according to G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant 1975
Sister taxa: Rugatia andersoni, Rugatia costiformis, Rugatia incurvata, Rugatia intermedia, Rugatia mckeei, Rugatia occidentalis, Rugatia paraindica
Type specimen: USNM 149530d, a shell (Articulated shell). Its type locality is USNM702c, Old Word Ranch, Glass Mountains, which is in a Kungurian slope/ramp reef limestone in the Road Canyon Formation of Texas.
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at USNM702c, Old Word Ranch, Glass Mountains
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