Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Full reference: B. D. E. Chatterton and R. Ludvigsen. 2004. Early Silurian trilobites of Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada. Palaeontographica Canadiana 22
Belongs to Calymene according to B. D. E. Chatterton and R. Ludvigsen 2004
Sister taxa: Calymene (Calymene), Calymene ansensis, Calymene barnesi, Calymene blumenbachii, Calymene breviceps, Calymene bufo, Calymene callicephala, Calymene celebra, Calymene conradi, Calymene frontosa, Calymene gamachei, Calymene granulosa, Calymene hadyardensis, Calymene latifrons, Calymene latigenata, Calymene marginata, Calymene mimaspera, Calymene minimarginata, Calymene nasuta, Calymene niagarensis, Calymene orthomarginata, Calymene polgari, Calymene pompeckji, Calymene retrorsa, Calymene ubitquitosus
Type specimen: GSC 122387, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is AN42, which is in an Aeronian/Telychian open shallow subtidal lime mudstone/mudstone in the Jupiter Formation of Canada.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Silurian of Canada (37: Quebec collections)
Total: 37 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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