Calymene
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| Calymene Temporal range: Mid Ordovician to Lower Devonian
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| Calymene blumenbachii, on display at the Natural History Museum, London | |
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| Genus: | Calymene Muenster, 1840
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Calymene (meaning beautiful crescent as a reference to the glabella) is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida, suborder Calymenina, 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. This trilobite grew to a length of 2.5 inches (7 centimeters) and fed on small edible particles in the water.
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.
- Calymene sp. in the Silurian-Ordovician of Morocco
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