Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Alternative combination: Calymene planimarginata
Full reference: F. R. C. Reed. 1906. The Lower Palaeozoic trilobites of the Girvan district, Ayrshire. Part 3. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society 97-186
Belongs to Flexicalymene according to B. R. Hunda and N. C. Hughes 2007
See also Dean 1963, Reed 1906, Shirley 1936 and Whittington 1965
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 praelongicephala, Flexicalymene quadricapita, Flexicalymene retrorsa, Flexicalymene scabustula, Flexicalymene scotica, Flexicalymene shirleyi, Flexicalymene tazarinensis, Flexicalymene trinucleina, Flexicalymene vaccarii, Flexicalymene verecunda
Type specimen: GSM 19608, a cephalon/head (cranidium). Its type locality is Ynys Galed, which is in a Longvillian/Woolstonian marine mudstone in the Dwyfach Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Ordovician of Ireland (1 collection), the United Kingdom (9)
Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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