Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Gillediidae

Alternative combination: Pyandzhelasma piriforme

Full reference: T. N. Smirnova and T.A. Grunt. 2002. New Permian brachiopods of the Order Terebratulida from southwestern Darvaz, the northern Pamirs: 1. Superfamilies Centronelloidea Waagen, 1882 and Dielasmatoidea Schuchert, 1913. Paleontological Journal 36(5):480-489

Belongs to Pyandzhelasma according to T. N. Smirnova 2007

See also Smirnova and Grunt 2002

Sister taxa: Pyandzhelasma juresanense, Pyandzhelasma juresanensiforme

Type specimen: PIN 4104/587, a shell (Articulated shell). Its type locality is Gundara River, Gundara-Charymdara Saddle, Locality 1160, which is in a Kungurian marine horizon in the Gundara Formation of Tajikistan.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Gundara River, Gundara-Charymdara Saddle, Locality 1160

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