Strophomenata - Productida - Richthofeniidae
Full reference: B. Licharew. 1928. Uber einige seltene und neue Brachiopoden aus dem Unterperm des norlichen Kaukasus. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 10:258-289
Belongs to Richthofenia according to G. V. Kotlyar 1989
See also Grunt and Dmitriev 1973, Licharew 1928 and Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
Sister taxa: Richthofenia anshunensis, Richthofenia elegans, Richthofenia guangdeensis, Richthofenia lawrenciana, Richthofenia orientalis, Richthofenia sinensis, Richthofenia tilita, Richthofenia ussurica
Type specimen: Its type locality is Severnaya Balka, Malaya Laba River (Robinson coll), which is in a Changhsingian carbonate limestone in the Urushten Formation of the Russian Federation
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Armenia (5 collections), Azerbaijan (2), Iran (1), the Russian Federation (1), Tajikistan (3), Ukraine (1)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
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