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Bimuria youngiana recta

Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Bimuriidae

Taxonomy
Bimuria youngiana recta was named by Williams (1962). Its type specimen is BB.26038, a valve (External and internal moulds of brachial valve), and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Bimuria recta by Wagner (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1962Bimuria youngiana recta Williams pp. 175 - 176 figs. Pl. XVII, figs. 4-7
2020Bimuria recta Wagner

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
Lophophorata
PanbrachiopodaCarlson and Cohen 2020
phylumBrachiopodaCuvier 1805
RankNameAuthor
subphylumRhynchonelliformeaWilliams et al. 1996
classStrophomenataWilliams et al 1996
orderStrophomenidaOpik 1934
superfamilyPlectambonitoideaJones 1928
familyBimuriidaeCooper 1956
genusBimuriaUlrich and Cooper 1942
speciesyoungiana(Davidson 1870)
subspeciesrecta

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.

Bimuria youngiana recta Williams 1962
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
A. Williams 1962Bimuria with the pedicle valve about one-half as deep as long, tending to be as wide as long in adult stages of growth and predominantly with a rectimarginate anterior commissure, ventral median fold very rarely developed; growth of comae commonly subdued on the pedicle valve but, when present, originating at about 6 mm. from the umbo; median septum of brachial valve obscured by secondary shell deposition-, outer ridges to the lophophore and muscle apparatus well defined, curved and convergent with the submedian septa.