Bellimurina compressa Cooper 1956 (lamp shell)

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae

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

Belongs to Bellimurina according to G. A. Cooper 1956

Sister taxa: Bellimurina (Bellimurina), Bellimurina concentrica, Bellimurina incommoda, Bellimurina sarytumensis, Bellimurina subquadrata, Bellimurina sulcata, Bellimurina tenuicorrugata

Type specimen: USNM 117653, a shell

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Bromide Formation, Mountain Lake Member Brachiopods (Ordovician of Oklahoma)

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