Artiopoda - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Full reference: A. Lamont. 1949. New Species of Calymenidae from Scotland and Ireland. Geological Magazine 86(5):313-323
Belongs to Flexicalymene according to Lamont 1949
Sister taxa: 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 shirleyi, Flexicalymene tazarinensis, Flexicalymene trinucleina, Flexicalymene vaccarii, Flexicalymene verecunda
Type specimen: RSM GY1956.15.51, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is Dailly grassy knoll, which is in a Hirnantian marine sandstone in the High Mains Sandstone Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Ordovician of the United Kingdom (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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