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Flexicalymene forcipata

Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae

Taxonomy
Calymene forcipata was named by M'Coy (1846) [Calymene? forcipata = 1980 Flexicalymene sp.; Baird, p. 23. lectotype selected by Dean (1963a, p. 236)]. Its type specimen is NMING: F4505, a cephalon/head, and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was synonymized subjectively with Flexicalymene caractaci by Brenchley (1977); it was recombined as Flexicalymene forcipata by Owen and Parkes (2000).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1846Calymene forcipata M'Coy p. 48 figs. pl. 4, fig. 14 (right-hand figure)
2000Flexicalymene forcipata Owen and Parkes pp. 239 - 242 figs. Plate 2, figures 8–13

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
Life
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
classTrilobitaWalch 1771
orderPhacopidaSalter 1864
suborderCalymeninaSwinnerton 1915
familyCalymenidaeMilne-Edwards 1840
subfamilyFlexicalymeninae
genusFlexicalymene
speciesforcipata(M'Coy 1846)

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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