Calymenidae
Encyclopedia
Calymenidae is a family
of trilobite
s, containing the following genera:
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
of trilobite
Trilobite
Trilobites are a well-known fossil group of extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita. The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record defines the base of the Atdabanian stage of the Early Cambrian period , and they flourished throughout the lower Paleozoic era before...
s, containing the following genera:
- Alcymene
- ApocalymeneApocalymeneApocalymene is a genus of trilobite in the order Phacopida, which existed in what is now Australia. It was described by Chatterton & Campbell in 1980, and the type species is Apocalymene coppinsensis.-External links:* at the Paleobiology Database...
- ArcticalymeneArcticalymeneArcticalymene is a genus of trilobites. It includes species named after each of the Sex Pistols: A. cooki , A. jonesi , A. matlocki , A. rotteni and A. viciousi , all named by Adrian and Edgecombe in 1997....
- CalymeneCalymeneCalymene is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida that were found throughout North America, North Africa, and Europe in primarily Silurian outcrops. Calymene are easily confused with Gravicalymene and Flexicalymene, also part of the Calymenidae family...
- Calymenella
- Calymenesun
- ColpocorypheColpocorypheColpocoryphe is a genus of trilobites in the family Calymenidae.-Morphology:* Convex Cephalon* Trapezoidal glabellea, frequently distinctly furrowed and surelevated compared to the axis....
- Dekalymene
- DiacalymeneDiacalymeneDiacalymene is a genus of trilobite from the order Phacopida, suborder Calymenina. It includes the species D. ouzregui, D. clavicula, D. diademata and D. gabrielsi. It lived in the Ordovician and Silurian periods....
- FlexicalymeneFlexicalymeneFlexicalymene is a genus of trilobites of the order Phacopida, suborder Calymenina. They are found abundantly in North America. Flexicalymene specimens can be mistaken for Calymene, Gravicalymene, Diacalymene and a few other Calymenina genera. They are used as an index fossil in the Ordovician...
- GravicalymeneGravicalymeneGravicalymene is a genus of trilobites from the order Phacopida, suborder Calymenia. Gravicalymene has been a 'hot button' trilobite lately. The species that are currently in this genus have been in Calymene and Sthenocalymene...
- Limbocalymene
- Linguocalymene
- Liocalymene
- Metacalymene
- Neseuretinus
- Neseuretus
- Nipponocalymene
- Onnicalymene
- Papillicalymene
- Paracalymene
- Platycalymene
- Pradoella
- Protocalymene
- Reacalymene
- Reedocalymene
- Salterocoryphe
- Sarrabesia
- Spathacalymene
- Sthenarocalymene
- Tapinocalymene
- Thelecalymene
- Vietnamia