Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene) caractaci Salter 1865 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae

Full reference: J. W. Salter. 1865. A monograph of the British trilobites from the Cambrian, Silurian and Devonian formations. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 17(72):81-128

Belongs to Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene) according to D. J. Siveter 1977

Sister taxon: Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene) senaria

Type specimen: GSM. 47698. Its type locality is Acton Scott Lodge, which is in a Marshbrookian marine horizon in the Cheney Longville Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at quarry South of Ringsås, Lower Chasmops Shale

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