Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Parent taxon: Calymenina according to J. M. Adrain 2011
See also Dean 1983, Harrington and Leanza 1957, Robison and Pantoja-Alor 1968, Turvey 2005 and Whittington et al. 1997
Sister taxa: Bathycheilidae, Bavarillidae, Homalonotidae, Pharostomatidae
Subtaxa: Calymenesum Calymeninae Flexicalymeninae Gravicalymene Linguocalymene Liocalymene Neseuretus Nipponocalymene Onnicalymene Papillicalymene Pharostomatinae Platycalymene Pradoella Protocalymene Reacalymene Reedocalymene Reedocalymeninae Salterocoryphe Spathacalymene Tapinocalymene
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (39 collections), Austria (1), Bolivia (1), China (4), the Czech Republic (14), France (3), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (1), Morocco (7), New Zealand (2), United States (1: Nevada), Uzbekistan (1), Vietnam (4)
• Whitwellian of Canada (5: Northwest Territories)
• Jaani of Estonia (8), Latvia (1), Lithuania (4)
• Niagaran of United States (1: Indiana)
• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1), Australia (1)
• Silurian of Argentina (6), Australia (13), Belarus (4), Canada (136: Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon Territory), China (2), the Czech Republic (14), Estonia (16), Greenland (2), India (1), Ireland (1), Latvia (8), Lithuania (8), Mexico (1), Norway (6), Paraguay (2), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (5), Sweden (16), Ukraine (20), the United Kingdom (55), United States (154: Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Dobrotivian of the Czech Republic (1), France (7), Morocco (3), Portugal (12), Spain (18)
• Uhaku of Norway (1)
• Letna of the Czech Republic (2)
• Whiterockian of United States (3: Nevada)
• Fennian of France (1)
• Volkhov of Argentina (1)
• Arenig of Argentina (4), Bolivia (3), China (17), France (3), Morocco (3), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3)
• Arenigian of China (10)
• Klabava of France (2)
• Dawan of China (2)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: New Brunswick), Norway (1)
• Ordovician of Algeria (1), Argentina (21), Australia (8), Belgium (1), Bolivia (2), Canada (60: Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Northwest Terrorities, Nunavut, Nunvait, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon), China (43), the Czech Republic (16), France (26), Iran (15), Ireland (15), Latvia (2), Morocco (15), Myanmar (1), Norway (54), Oman (2), Peru (1), Portugal (3), the Russian Federation (3), Saudi Arabia (3), Spain (19), Sweden (24), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (153), United States (618: California, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania and Virginia, Tennessee, Virginia), Venezuela (1), Vietnam (1)
• Tremadoc of China (3), Spain (2)
Total: 1790 collections including 2032 occurrences