Colpocoryphe

Colpocoryphe
Colpocoryphe grandis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	†Trilobita
Order:	†Phacopida
Suborder:	†Calymenina
Family:	†Calymenidae
Genus:	†Colpocoryphe
species
†Colpocoryphe grandis †Colpocoryphe rouaulti

Colpocoryphe is a genus of trilobites in the family Calymenidae.^[1]

Morphology

• Convex Cephalon
• Trapezoidal glabellea, frequently distinctly furrowed and surelevated compared to the axis.
• Dorsal furrows slightly convergent forwardly with almost linear anterior parts.

Broad dorsal furrows, deep and not well defined.

3, rather 4, well defined lateral furrows

• Librigenæ without lateral area or lateral furrow.
• Preglabellar field very short, downward oriented.
• Inflated occipital ring with smooth lateral ends.
• Occipital furrow broad and deep.
• Eye ridges rather weak.
• Anterior cephalic notch marked, with frequently parallel edges.
• Thorax : Strongly convex axis.
• Triangular Pygidium
• Convex axis, with segmentation well defined.
• 6 - 8 axial rings.
• Pleurae with deep border furrows.
• Axis extending nearly to posterior margin (large posterior terminal piece), connected to

it by short postaxial ridge.

• Pleural fields behind articulating half-ribs nearly smooth, with 2 - 3 very indistinct ribs.

Wide border distinctly set off by marked change in convexity.

References

1. ^ "Colpocoryphe grandis". Trilobite systematics. http://jb.gayet.pagesperso-orange.fr/pages/anglais/Ecolpograndis.htm. Retrieved 21 August 2011.