Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Parent taxon: Calymenina according to J. M. Adrain 2011
See also Dean 1983, Harrington and Leanza 1957, Robison and Pantoja-Alor 1968, Turvey 2005 and Whittington et al. 1997
Sister taxa: Bathycheilidae, Bavarillidae, Homalonotidae, Pharostomatidae
Subtaxa: Calymenesum Calymeninae Carmoninae Flexicalymeninae Gravicalymene Linguocalymene Liocalymene Neseuretus Nipponocalymene Onnicalymene Papillicalymene Pharostomatinae Platycalymene Pradoella Protocalymene Reacalymene Reedocalymene Reedocalymeninae Salterocoryphe Spathacalymene Tapinocalymene
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (41 collections), Austria (1), Bolivia (1), China (4), Czechia (15), France (3), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (1), Morocco (7), New Zealand (2), United States (1: Nevada), Uzbekistan (1), Vietnam (4)
• Whitwellian of Canada (5: Northwest Territories)
• Jaani of Estonia (8), Latvia (1), Lithuania (4)
• Niagaran of United States (1: Indiana)
• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1), Australia (1)
• Silurian of Argentina (6), Australia (13), Belarus (4), Canada (136: Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon Territory), China (2), Czechia (14), Estonia (16), Greenland (2), India (1), Ireland (1), Latvia (8), Lithuania (8), Mexico (1), Norway (6), Paraguay (2), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (5), Sweden (16), Ukraine (20), the United Kingdom (55), United States (154: Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Uhaku of Norway (1), Sweden (1)
• Dobrotivian of France (7), Morocco (3), Portugal (12), Spain (18)
• Letna of Czechia (2)
• Whiterockian of United States (3: Nevada)
• Whitlandian of the United Kingdom (2)
• Arenigian of China (10)
• Klabava of France (2)
• Arenig of Argentina (4), Bolivia (3), China (17), France (3), Morocco (3), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3)
• Dawan of China (2)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: New Brunswick), Norway (1)
• Ordovician of Algeria (1), Argentina (22), Australia (8), Belgium (1), Bolivia (2), Canada (60: Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Northwest Terrorities, Nunavut, Nunvait, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon), China (56), Czechia (17), France (27), Iran (8), Ireland (16), Latvia (2), Morocco (15), Myanmar (1), Norway (54), Oman (2), Peru (1), Portugal (3), the Russian Federation (3), Saudi Arabia (3), Spain (21), Sweden (24), Türkiye (2), the United Kingdom (150), United States (619: California, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania and Virginia, Tennessee, Virginia), Venezuela (1), Vietnam (1)
Total: 1798 collections including 2044 occurrences