Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Full reference: R. J. Ross. 1979. Additional trilobites from the Ordovician of Kentucky. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066(D):D1-D13
Belongs to Gravicalymene according to P. M. Smith and M. C. Ebach 2020
See also Ross 1979
Sister taxa: Calymene (Gravicalymene) angustior, Gravicalymene affinis, Gravicalymene arcuata, Gravicalymene asperula, Gravicalymene australis, Gravicalymene bakeri, Gravicalymene capitovata, Gravicalymene changyangensis, Gravicalymene convolva, Gravicalymene cootamundrensis, Gravicalymene coppinsensis, Gravicalymene deani, Gravicalymene eunoa, Gravicalymene hagani, Gravicalymene hamlagdadica, Gravicalymene hetera, Gravicalymene hornyi, Gravicalymene inflata, Gravicalymene interjecta, Gravicalymene jugifera, Gravicalymene kilmorensis, Gravicalymene lardeuxi, Gravicalymene longmenshanensis, Gravicalymene maura, Gravicalymene pola, Gravicalymene pontilis, Gravicalymene quadrata, Gravicalymene quadrilobata, Gravicalymene reperta, Gravicalymene scutula, Gravicalymene susi, Gravicalymene tedderensis, Gravicalymene teddersensis, Gravicalymene vaccina, Gravicalymene xibieheense, Gravicalymene yamakoshii, Gravicalymene zhenzishanensis
Type specimen: USNM 206853. Its type locality is USGS 7984-CO. along Moffett Road, 0.5 miles west of Kenton, which is in an Edenian offshore ramp packstone/mudstone in the Kope Formation of Kentucky.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at USGS 7984-CO. along Moffett Road, 0.5 miles west of Kenton
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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