Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Synonym: Dekalymene Curtis and Lane 1998
Parent taxon: Calymeninae according to J. M. Adrain and G. D. Edgecombe 1997
See also Chatterton and Ludvigsen 2004, Jell and Adrain 2002, Sepkoski 2002 and Shirley 1936
Sister taxa: Alcymene, Arcticalymene, Atlanticalymene, Calymene
Subtaxa: Dekalymene crassa Diacalymene consimilis Diacalymene gabrielsi Diacalymene lesperancei Diacalymene schucherti
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Whitwellian of Canada (5: Northwest Territories collections)
• Silurian of Argentina (2), Canada (36: Northwest Territories, Quebec), the Czech Republic (7), Estonia (1), Paraguay (1), the United Kingdom (12), United States (3: Arkansas, Oklahoma)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Norway (1)
• Ordovician of Canada (10: Quebec), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 80 collections each including a single occurrence
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