Calymene

Calymene

Taxobox
name = "Calymene"


image_width = 150px
image_caption = Calymene blumenbachii, on display at the Natural History Museum, London
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Trilobita
ordo = Phacopida
subordo = Calymenina
familia = Calymenidae
genus = "Calymene"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Calymene" is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida, suborder Calymenina, that were found throughout North America and in Europe in Silurian outcrops. "Calymene" are easily confused with Gravicalymene and Flexicalymene.

Known species and locations

*"Calymene breviceps", Indiana and Illinois.
*"Calymene blumenbachi", Dudley England.
*"Calymene clavicula", Oklahoma.
*"Calymene niagarensis", New York.
*"Calymene tuberculata", Gotland Sweden.
*"Calymene vogdesi", Ohio.


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