Diacalymene Kegel 1927 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae

Synonym: Dekalymene Curtis and Lane 1998

Parent taxon: Calymeninae according to J. M. Adrain and G. D. Edgecombe 1997

See also Chatterton and Ludvigsen 2004, Jell and Adrain 2002, Sepkoski 2002 and Shirley 1936

Sister taxa: Alcymene, Arcticalymene, Atlanticalymene, Calymene

Subtaxa: Dekalymene crassa Diacalymene consimilis Diacalymene gabrielsi Diacalymene lesperancei Diacalymene schucherti

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Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Silurian of Argentina (2 collections), Canada (41: Northwest Territories, Quebec), the Czech Republic (7), Estonia (1), Paraguay (1), the United Kingdom (12), United States (3: Arkansas, Oklahoma)

• Ordovician to Silurian of Norway (1)

• Ordovician of Canada (10: Quebec), the United Kingdom (2)

Total: 80 collections each including a single occurrence

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