Lingulata - Lingulida - Discinidae

Full reference: Y.G. Jin and D. L. Sun. 1981. Paleozoic brachiopods from Xizang (Tibet). Paleontology of Xizang, Book III, The Series of the Scientific Expedition to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau 127-171

Belongs to Orbiculoidea according to Y. G. Jin et al. 1985

See also Jin and Sun 1981

Sister taxa: Orbiculoidea affinis, Orbiculoidea anhuiensis, Orbiculoidea armstrongi, Orbiculoidea batesvillensis, Orbiculoidea capax, Orbiculoidea capuliformis, Orbiculoidea cincta, Orbiculoidea clintonensis, Orbiculoidea concentrica, Orbiculoidea damanensis, Orbiculoidea elegans, Orbiculoidea excentrica, Orbiculoidea excentrica, Orbiculoidea forbesa, Orbiculoidea gibba, Orbiculoidea interlineata, Orbiculoidea jangarensis, Orbiculoidea keokuk, Orbiculoidea kolymaensis, Orbiculoidea konincki, Orbiculoidea kullsbergensis, Orbiculoidea liaoi, Orbiculoidea linguliformis, Orbiculoidea magna, Orbiculoidea minuta, Orbiculoidea missouriensis, Orbiculoidea nucleola, Orbiculoidea ovalis, Orbiculoidea pileolus, Orbiculoidea platymitraformis, Orbiculoidea prietana, Orbiculoidea qieermaensis, Orbiculoidea qinglongensis, Orbiculoidea radiata, Orbiculoidea rotularia, Orbiculoidea sampsoni, Orbiculoidea semipolita, Orbiculoidea shallochensis, Orbiculoidea sodalis, Orbiculoidea soyanensis, Orbiculoidea spitzbergensis, Orbiculoidea stincharensis, Orbiculoidea utahensis, Orbiculoidea varsoviensis, Orbiculoidea verum, Orbiculoidea warthi, Orbiculoidea winsnesi, Orbiculoidea wisnesi, Orbiculoidea wyomingensis, Orbiculoidea xinguensis, Orbiculoidea yangkangensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Tuoba, Qamdo County (Tuoba Fm), which is in a Wuchiapingian marine horizon in the Tuoba Formation of China

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Tuoba, Qamdo County (Tuoba Fm)

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