Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Neoretziidae

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 Hustedia according to G. A. Cooper and R. E. Grant 1976

Sister taxa: Hustedia ambigua, Hustedia ampullacea, Hustedia bipartita, Hustedia borealis, Hustedia catella, Hustedia cepacea, Hustedia citeria, Hustedia compressa, Hustedia connorsi, Hustedia consuta, Hustedia crepax, Hustedia culcitula, Hustedia cuneata, Hustedia decollatensis, Hustedia deminuta, Hustedia demissa, Hustedia elongata, Hustedia episkopiensis, Hustedia funaria, Hustedia glomerosa, Hustedia grandicosta, Hustedia hapala, Hustedia hessensis, Hustedia huecoensis, Hustedia hyporhachis, Hustedia inconspicua, Hustedia indica, Hustedia lata, Hustedia longirostris, Hustedia lusca, Hustedia meridionalis, Hustedia mexicana, Hustedia minuta, Hustedia mormoni, Hustedia narinosa, Hustedia opsia, Hustedia orbicostata, Hustedia papillata, Hustedia paula, Hustedia pseudocardia, Hustedia pugilla, Hustedia ratburiensis, Hustedia remota, Hustedia rhynchospiroides, Hustedia rupinata, Hustedia samiata, Hustedia sculptilis, Hustedia sicuaniensis, Hustedia spicata, Hustedia sulcata, Hustedia tomea, Hustedia trisecta, Hustedia trita, Hustedia troelseni, Hustedia xainzaensis

Type specimen: USNM 153255y', 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

Average measurements (in mm): shell 5.91 x 4.94