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Flexicalymene planimarginata

Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae

Taxonomy
Calymene planimarginata was named by Reed (1906). Its type specimen is GSM 19608, a cephalon/head (cranidium), and it is a mold. Its type locality is Ynys Galed, which is in a Longvillian/Woolstonian marine mudstone in the Dwyfach Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Flexicalymene planimarginata by Shirley (1936), Dean (1963), Whittington (1965) and Hunda and Hughes (2007).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1906Calymene planimarginata Reed p. 137 figs. pl. 17, fig. 15
1936Flexicalymene planimarginata Shirley
1963Flexicalymene planimarginata Dean p. 217 figs. PI. 37, fig. 15
1965Flexicalymene planimarginata Whittington p. 60
2007Flexicalymene planimarginata Hunda and Hughes pp. Table A1

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
RankNameAuthor
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderPhacopidaSalter 1864
suborderCalymeninaSwinnerton 1915
familyCalymenidaeMilne-Edwards 1840
subfamilyFlexicalymeninae
genusFlexicalymene
speciesplanimarginata()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
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