Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Full reference: J. Shirley. 1936. Some British trilobites of the family Calymenidae. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 92:384-421
Parent taxon: Flexicalymeninae according to A. W. Owen and D. L. Bruton 1980
See also Jell and Adrain 2002, Sepkoski 2002, Siveter 1977 and Whittington 1941
Sister taxa: Metacalymene, Sthenarocalymene, Thelecalymene
Subtaxa: 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 meeki 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:
• Silurian of Argentina (3 collections), Ukraine (2), United States (3: New York)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: New Brunswick)
• Ordovician of Australia (1), Canada (29: Newfoundland, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (1), the Czech Republic (6), Ireland (13), Morocco (5), Norway (36), Spain (1), Sweden (9), the United Kingdom (107), United States (557: Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, Tennessee, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
Total: 775 collections including 791 occurrences
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