Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Synonyms: Flexicalymene (Sulcocalymene) Baldis and Pothe 1995, Sulcocalymene Baldis and Pothe 1995
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: Calymenidae according to P. A. Jell and J. M. Adrain 2002
See also Edgecombe et al. 1998, Sepkoski 2002 and Siveter 1977
Sister taxa: Calymenesum, Calymeninae, Flexicalymeninae, Gravicalymene, Linguocalymene, Liocalymene, Neseuretus, Nipponocalymene, Onnicalymene, Papillicalymene, Pharostomatinae, Pradoella, Protocalymene, Reacalymene, Reedocalymene, Reedocalymeninae, Salterocoryphe, Spathacalymene, Tapinocalymene
Subtaxa: Platycalymene dilatata Platycalymene duplicata Platycalymene metoeca Platycalymene tasgarensis Platycalymene trapezoidalis
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Ordovician of Argentina (15 collections), Canada (2: Northwest Territories, Northwest Terrorities), Sweden (4), the United Kingdom (11)
Total: 32 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.