Calymene retrorsa Foerste 1910 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae

Full reference: A. F. Foerste. 1910. Preliminary notes on Cincinnatian and Lexington fossils of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Bulletin of the Scientific Laboratories of Denison University 16(1):17-100

Belongs to Calymene according to Foerste 1919

Sister taxa: Calymene (Calymene), Calymene ansensis, Calymene barnesi, Calymene blumenbachii, Calymene breviceps, Calymene bufo, Calymene callicephala, Calymene celebra, Calymene conradi, Calymene frontosa, Calymene gamachei, Calymene granulosa, Calymene hadyardensis, Calymene latigenata, Calymene marginata, Calymene mimaspera, Calymene minimarginata, Calymene nasuta, Calymene niagarensis, Calymene nowlani, Calymene orthomarginata, Calymene polgari, Calymene pompeckji, Calymene ubitquitosus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Half a mile above the mouth of Silver creek, east of Dunlapsville, which is in a Richmondian offshore ramp packstone/mudstone in the Waynesville Formation of Indiana

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Half a mile above the mouth of Silver creek, east of Dunlapsville

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