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Flexicalymene caractaci

Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae

Taxonomy
Calymene blumenbachii caractaci was named by Salter (1865) [Lectotype designated by Dean (1963).]. Its type specimen is GSM. 47698 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Acton Scott Lodge, which is in a Marshbrookian marine horizon in the Cheney Longville Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type subspecies of Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene).

It was recombined as Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene) caractaci by Siveter (1977); it was recombined as Flexicalymene caractaci by Shirley (1936), Dean (1963) and Hunda and Hughes (2007).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Calymene blumenbachii caractaci Salter p. 96 figs. pl. 9, fig. 3
1936Flexicalymene caractaci Shirley
1949Flexicalymene trigonoceps Bancroft p. 306 figs. pl. 11, figs. 31, 32
1963Flexicalymene caractaci Dean pp. 217 - 218 figs. pl. 38, figs. 2, 4-6, 8, 11, 12
1963Flexicalymene cobboldi Dean pp. 219 - 220 figs. PI. 38, figs, 1, 3
1977Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene) caractaci Siveter pp. 354 - 356 figs. 10, E, G
2007Flexicalymene caractaci 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
speciescaractaci()

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.

†Flexicalymene caractaci Salter 1865
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Invalid names: Flexicalymene cobboldi Dean 1963 [synonym], Flexicalymene trigonoceps Bancroft 1949 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: low Mg calcitec
Composition 2: chitinc
Entire body: yesg
Adult length: 10 to < 100g
Adult width: 10 to < 100g
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10g
Spines: noneg
Ontogeny: molting, addition of partsc
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: actively mobileg
Life habit: nektobenthicg
Diet: carnivoref
Vision: well-developedf
Created: 2009-06-09 12:08:00
Modified: 2009-07-20 15:30:25
Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class
References: Harrington et al. 1959, Hendy 2009, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: Longvillian or 457.20000 to 452.50000 Ma

Collections (15 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Soudleyan - Longvillian458.4 - 455.0United Kingdom (Wales) Flexicalymene caractaci (192427)
Longvillian457.2 - 455.0United Kingdom (Walers) Flexicalymene caractaci (3304)
Longvillian457.2 - 455.0United Kingdom (Wales) Flexicalymene caractaci (188590 192388 192389)
Longvillian - Woolstonian457.2 - 454.0United Kingdom (Wales) Flexicalymene caractaci (192407)
Woolstonian457.2 - 454.0United Kingdom (Wales) Flexicalymene caractaci (188591 188592) Flexicalymene cobboldi (192344)
Marshbrookian455.0 - 454.0United Kingdom Calymene blumenbachii (type locality: 167233)
Marshbrookian - Actonian455.0 - 453.0Norway (Hadeland) Flexicalymene caractaci (2761)
Marshbrookian - Actonian455.0 - 453.0United Kingdom (Wales) Flexicalymene caractaci (192345)
Actonian454.0 - 453.0United Kingdom (Wales) Flexicalymene caractaci (192346 192347)
Cheneyan - Marshbrookian452.5 - 454.0United Kingdom (Wales) Flexicalymene cobboldi (173780)