Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Full reference: W. T. Dean. 1979. Trilobites from the Long Point Group (Ordovician), Port au Port Peninsula, southwestern Newfoundland. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 290:1-53
Belongs to Flexicalymene according to B. R. Hunda and N. C. Hughes 2007
See also Dean 1979
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 scotica, Flexicalymene shirleyi, Flexicalymene tazarinensis, Flexicalymene trinucleina, Flexicalymene vaccarii
Type specimen: GSC 38671, a cephalon/head (left cranidium). Its type locality is GSC loc. 90844 - Unsurfaced road leading from Lourdes to Clam Bank Cove, which is in a Katian shallow subtidal limestone/shale in the Winterhouse Formation of Canada.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at GSC loc. 90844 - Unsurfaced road leading from Lourdes to Clam Bank Cove
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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