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

Trilobites Taxonomy Orders Agnostida Asaphida Corynexochida Harpetida Nektaspida Redlichiida Lichida Phacopida Proetida Ptychopariida Genera List of trilobites 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 Johan Wilhelm Dalman Paleobiology Cambrian explosion Cruziana Diplichnites Permian–Triassic extinction event Rusophycus Trilobite zone Notable 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 Exoskeleton Tagmata Cephalon Thorax Pygidium Axial lobe Pleural lobe Terminology Cranidium Effacement Enrollment Facial sutures Fixigena Gena Genal angle Glabella Gonatoparian Heteronomous Homonomous Hypostome Isopygous Librigena Macropygous Micropygous Opisthoparian Proparian Prosopon Spinosity Subisopygous Soft body parts Appendages Digestive tract Internal organs Musculature Antennae Eyes Sensory pits Category:Trilobites