Calymenidae

Calymenidae
Colpocoryphe grandis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Phacopida
Suborder: Calymenina
Family: Calymenidae
Milne-Edwards, 1840

Calymenidae is a family of trilobites, containing the following genera:[1]

  • Alcymene
  • Apocalymene
  • Arcticalymene
  • Calymene
  • Calymenella
  • Calymenesun
  • Colpocoryphe
  • Dekalymene
  • Diacalymene
  • Flexicalymene
  • Gravicalymene
  • Limbocalymene
  • Linguocalymene
  • Liocalymene
  • Metacalymene
  • Neseuretinus
  • Neseuretus
  • Nipponocalymene
  • Onnicalymene
  • Papillicalymene
  • Paracalymene
  • Platycalymene
  • Pradoella
  • Protocalymene
  • Reacalymene
  • Reedocalymene
  • Salterocoryphe
  • Sarrabesia
  • Spathacalymene
  • Sthenarocalymene
  • Tapinocalymene
  • Thelecalymene
  • Vietnamia

References

  1. ^ Sam Gon III. "Order Phacopida". http://www.trilobites.info/ordphacopida.htm. Retrieved November 13, 2010. 
Taxonomy
Geochronology

Cambrian · Ordovician · Silurian · Devonian · Carboniferous · Permian
Notable fossils

Acropyge · Calymene · Cheiropyge · Eofallotaspis tioutensis · Hupetina antiqua · Isotelus · Kathwaia · Misszhouia · Olenus · Ogygiocarella debuchii · Paraphillipsia · Phacops rana · Profallotaspis jakutensis · Pseudophillipsia · Serrania gordaensis
Notable trilobitologists

Alexander von Humboldt · Joachim Barrande · Alfred Russel Wallace · Charles Doolittle Walcott · Charles Emerson Beecher · Roderick Murchison · Adam Sedgwick · Rudolf Kaufmann · Rudolf Richter & Emma Richter · Martin Basse · Niles Eldredge · George Frederic Matthew · Harry B. Whittington · Brian D. E. Chatterton · Richard Fortey · Euan Clarkson · Franco Rasetti · Gregory D. Edgecombe · Bruce S. Lieberman · Gerald J. Kloc · Gerhard K. B. Alberti · Teiichi Kobayashi
Fossil sites
Anti-Atlas Mountains · Beecher's Trilobite Bed · Burgess Shale · Emu Bay shale · Gees, Gerolstein · Hunsrück Slate · Jince Formation · Latham Shale · Llandeilo Group · Maotianshan Shales · Silica Shale Formation · Walcott-Rust quarry · Wenlock Group · Wheeler Shale · Wolchov River · Wren's Nest
Morphology
Category:Trilobites