Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Alternative combination: Calymene blumenbachi
Belongs to Calymene according to Salter 1865
Sister taxa: Calymene (Calymene), Calymene ansensis, Calymene barnesi, 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 retrorsa, Calymene ubitquitosus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Dudley, West Midlands, which is in a Homerian marine horizon in the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation of the United Kingdom
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jaani of Estonia (3 collections)
• Silurian of Estonia (1), Lithuania (2), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (3), United States (1: Alaska)
Total: 15 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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