Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Alternative spelling: Calymmene
Parent taxon: Calymeninae according to J. M. Adrain and G. D. Edgecombe 1997
See also Adrain et al. 1995, M'Coy 1849, Raymond 1916, Sepkoski 2002, Shirley 1936, Turvey and Siveter 2007 and Warburg 1925
Sister taxa: Alcymene, Arcticalymene, Atlanticalymene, Diacalymene
Subtaxa: Calymene (Calymene) Calymene ansensis Calymene barnesi Calymene blumenbachii Calymene breviceps Calymene bufo Calymene callicephala Calymene celebra Calymene conradi Calymene frontosa Calymene gamachei Calymene granulosa Calymene hadyardensis Calymene latigenata Calymene marginata Calymene mimaspera Calymene minimarginata Calymene nasuta Calymene niagarensis Calymene nowlani Calymene orthomarginata Calymene polgari Calymene pompeckji Calymene retrorsa Calymene ubitquitosus
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (4 collections), Austria (1), Bolivia (1), China (1), France (3), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1), United States (1: Nevada)
• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1)
• Silurian of Argentina (6), Belarus (4), Canada (110: Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (1), the Czech Republic (3), Estonia (23), Greenland (2), India (1), Ireland (1), Latvia (8), Lithuania (12), Norway (4), Paraguay (2), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (5), Sweden (16), Ukraine (19), the United Kingdom (44), United States (119: Alaska, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Niagaran of United States (1: Indiana)
• Ordovician of Canada (14: Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (3), France (2), Norway (1), Sweden (1), United States (7: Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Tennessee, Virginia)
• Llandeilo of China (1)
Total: 432 collections including 465 occurrences
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