Bellimurina Cooper 1956 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae

Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245

Parent taxon: Strophomenidae according to P. Musteikis and L. R. M. Cocks 2004

See also Hoel 2011, Sepkoski 2002 and Williams et al. 2000

Sister taxa: Chunanomena, Gosaukammerella, Iberomena, Leptaenoideinae, Nasutimena, Oepikinae, Opikina, Orthotetinae, Oxostrophomena, Rafinesquinae, Septomena, Strophomeninae

Subtaxa: Bellimurina (Bellimurina) Bellimurina compressa Bellimurina concentrica Bellimurina incommoda Bellimurina sarytumensis Bellimurina subquadrata Bellimurina sulcata Bellimurina tenuicorrugata

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Chazyan of United States (1: Alabama collection)

• Ordovician of Australia (1), China (3), Iran (2), Kazakhstan (9), the Russian Federation (4), the United Kingdom (6), United States (8: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia)

Total: 34 collections including 35 occurrences

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