Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Nucleospiridae

Full reference: G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant. 1976. Permian Brachiopods from West Texas, IV. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 21:1923-2607

Belongs to Nucleospira according to T. A. Grunt 1986

See also Cooper and Grant 1976

Sister taxa: Nucleospira bellornata, Nucleospira concinna, Nucleospira hecetensis, Nucleospira lentilca, Nucleospira pisum, Nucleospira subsphaerica, Nucleospira superata, Nucleospira ventricosa

Type specimen: USNM 152453z, 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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