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Bayhaium merriamorum

Anthozoa - Auloporida - Roemeriidae

Taxonomy
Bayhaium merriamorum was named by Langenheim and McCutcheon (1959). Its type specimen is UCMP 37683 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is UCMP loc. B-2044, Gray Rocks, which is in a Wolfcampian shallow subtidal limestone in the McCloud Formation of California. It is the type species of Bayhaium.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1959Bayhaium merriamorum Langenheim, Jr. and McCutcheon p. 100 figs. Pl 19, figs 1-6
1982Bayhaium merriamorum Wilson p. 75 figs. 43a-g

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
subclassTabulataMilne-Edwards and Haime 1850
orderAuloporidaSokolov 1947
RankNameAuthor
superfamilySyringoporoidea(Fromentel 1861)
familyRoemeriidaePocta 1904
genusBayhaium
speciesmerriamorum

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Bayhaium merriamorum Langenheim, Jr. and McCutcheon 1959
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