Calymene

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Calymene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Phacopida
Suborder: Calymenina
Family: Calymenidae
Genus: Calymene
Species

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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.

[edit] 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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