Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Alternative combination: Calymene meeki
Full reference: A. F. Foerste. 1910. Preliminary notes on Cincinnatian and Lexington fossils of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Bulletin of the Scientific Laboratories of Denison University 16(1):17-100
Belongs to Flexicalymene according to B. R. Hunda and N. C. Hughes 2007
See also Foerste 1910 and Stumm and Kauffman 1958
Sister taxa: Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene), Flexicalymene (Onnicalymene), Flexicalymene (Reacalymene), Flexicalymene aurora, Flexicalymene cambrensis, Flexicalymene caractaci, Flexicalymene cavei, Flexicalymene croneisi, Flexicalymene forcipata, Flexicalymene granulosa, Flexicalymene griphus, Flexicalymene incerta, Flexicalymene magnipapilla, Flexicalymene onniensis, Flexicalymene peregrina, Flexicalymene planilabra, Flexicalymene planimarginata, Flexicalymene praelongicephala, Flexicalymene quadricapita, Flexicalymene retrorsa, Flexicalymene scabustula, Flexicalymene scotica, Flexicalymene shirleyi, Flexicalymene tazarinensis, Flexicalymene trinucleina, Flexicalymene vaccarii, Flexicalymene verecunda
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Ordovician of Canada (4: Ontario, Quebec collections), United States (134: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee)
Total: 138 collections each including a single occurrence
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