Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Notothyrididae
Full reference: G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1976. Permian Brachiopods of west Texas, V. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 24:2609-3159
Belongs to Glossothyropsis according to G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant 1976
Sister taxa: Glossothyropsis carinata, Glossothyropsis cryptacanthoides, Glossothyropsis juvenis, Glossothyropsis magna, Glossothyropsis polita, Glossothyropsis rectangulata, Glossothyropsis robusta, Glossothyropsis sinuata, Glossothyropsis superba
Type specimen: USNM 153451, a shell (Articulated shell). Its type locality is USNM708u, Split Tank, Glass Mountains, which is in a Kungurian marine limestone in the Cathedral Mountain Formation of Texas.
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at USNM708u, Split Tank, Glass Mountains
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