Diacalymene

Diacalymene
Temporal range: Ordovician–Silurian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Phacopida
Suborder: Calymenina
Family: Calymenidae
Genus: Diacalymene
Kegel, 1927
Type species
Calymene diademata
Barrande, 1846 [1]

Diacalymene is a genus of trilobite from the order Phacopida, suborder Calymenina. It includes the species D. ouzregui, D. clavicula,[2] D. diademata and D. gabrielsi.[1] It lived in the Ordovician[3] and Silurian periods.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Jonathan M. Adrain and Gregory D. Edgecombe (1997). "Silurian (Wenlock) calymenid trilobites from the Cape Phillips Formation, central Canadian Arctic" (PDF). Journal of Paleontology 71 (4): 657–682. JSTOR 1306585.
  2. Riccardo Levi-Setti (1995). Trilobites (2nd ed.). University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-47452-6.
  3. Pierre J. Lespérance (1968). "Ordovician and Silurian trilobite faunas of the White Head Formation, Percé Region, Québec". Journal of Paleontology 42 (3): 811–826. JSTOR 1302377.
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