30198 - Beautiful Rolled 0.67 Inch Flexicalymene meeki Ordovician Trilobite - Ohio USA
30198 - Beautiful Rolled 0.67 Inch Flexicalymene meeki Ordovician Trilobite - Ohio USA 30198 - Beautiful Rolled 0.67 Inch Flexicalymene meeki Ordovician Trilobite - Ohio USA 30198 - Beautiful Rolled 0.67 Inch Flexicalymene meeki Ordovician Trilobite - Ohio USA 30198 - Beautiful Rolled 0.67 Inch Flexicalymene meeki Ordovician Trilobite - Ohio USA 30198 - Beautiful Rolled 0.67 Inch Flexicalymene meeki Ordovician Trilobite - Ohio USA 30198 - Beautiful Rolled 0.67 Inch Flexicalymene meeki Ordovician Trilobite - Ohio USA

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30198 - Beautiful Rolled 0.67 Inch Flexicalymene meeki Ordovician Trilobite - Ohio USA

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Species
† Flexicalymene meeki (Foerste, 1910)
Age
Ordovician, (~460 Million Years)
Location
Mount Orab, Ohio (USA)
Formation
Richmond Formation
Size
17.1 mm   •    in
Weight
2 g   •    oz
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Description
Flexicalymene meeki, Foerste 1910 (trilobite)
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 110817

Alternative combination: Calymene meeki

Full reference: A. F. Foerste. 1910. Preliminary notes on Cincinnatian and Lexington fossils of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Bulletin of the Scientific Laboratories of Denison University 16(1):17-100

Belongs to Flexicalymene according to B. R. Hunda and N. C. Hughes 2007

See also Foerste 1910 and Stumm and Kauffman 1958

Sister taxa: Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene), Flexicalymene (Onnicalymene), Flexicalymene (Reacalymene), Flexicalymene cambrensis, Flexicalymene caractaci, Flexicalymene cavei, Flexicalymene croneisi, Flexicalymene forcipata, Flexicalymene granulosa, Flexicalymene griphus, Flexicalymene incerta, Flexicalymene magnipapilla, Flexicalymene onniensis, Flexicalymene peregrina, Flexicalymene planilabra, Flexicalymene planimarginata, Flexicalymene praelongicephala, Flexicalymene quadricapita, Flexicalymene retrorsa, Flexicalymene scabustula, Flexicalymene scotica, Flexicalymene senaria, Flexicalymene shirleyi, Flexicalymene trinucleina, Flexicalymene vaccarii, Flexicalymene verecunda

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Environments: deep subtidal ramp (3 collections), carbonate (2), offshore ramp (2), shallow subtidal (2), offshore shelf (2), deep subtidal (1), deep subtidal shelf (1)

Age range: 449.5 to 443.7 Ma

Distribution:

• Ordovician of Canada (4: Ontario, Quebec collections), United States (134: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee)
 
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