Calymene


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Ca`lym´e`ne


n.1.(Zool.) A genus of trilobites characteristic of the Silurian age.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Calymene accipitrina Phillips, 1841, Upper Devonian Pilton Beds, England.
The latest Devonian (Famennian) phacopid trilobite Omegops from eastern Alborz, Iran
|| The While it does not stock the Dudley Bug itself (Calymene blumenbachii), it does sell similar trilobites such as flexicalymene from Morocco, which is a close relative of the Dudley Bug.
Fossils still for sale in home of Dudley Bug; LETTERS&NOSTALGIA
Rock of ages: The unique antique gold brooch with the Silurian trilobite Calymene as centrepiece.
Shaped like a huge Calymene, Fortey reveals that guests would be able to dine under the glabella - a part of the cranium - and learn history under the thorax.
Getting the bug for hunting down trilobites
The most famous local fossil is Calymene blumenbachii, otherwise known as the Dudley Bug.
Midland town once bost its top; Deep secret that lies beneath a Black Country hill could be explosive
This type, with the scientific name Calymene blumenbachii, is a famous one found in the limestones around Dudley and it became known as the "Dudley Bug".
A sight for 'saur eyes! PREHISTORIC PERFECTION AS RE-OPENED GEOLOGY MUSEUM GIVES KIDS A HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE OF LIFE BILLIONS OF YEARS AGO
Calymene arago Rouault, 1849; Llanvirn-Llandeilo (= Darriwilian), La Couyere, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France.
Digestive structures in Ordovician trilobites Colpocoryphe and Flexicalymene from the Barrandian area of Czech Republic/Barrandeumi piirkonnas Tsehhi Vabariigis Ordoviitsiumi trilobiitidel Colpocoryphe ja Flexicalymene leitud seedetrakti elemendid
Palaeontologist Mr Colin Reid, who is also the town's museum manager, said: "The Dudley Bug, known as Calymene blumenbachii, was a sort of marine wood louse which lived 425million years ago.
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Several trilobites of the Ohesaare Formation, such as Calymene, had a suitable body size for the Cruziana isp.
Cruziana traces from the late Silurian (Pridoli) carbonate shelf of Saaremaa, Estonia/Cruziana jaljed Saaremaa Hilis-Siluri (Pridoli) karbonaatse selfi setenditest
The Dzvenygorod Fm represents open shelf facies conditions, as shown by the Dayia bohemica brachiopod, Calymene dnestroviana trilobite and Holacanthia socialis coral communities (all BA 3, the last one also BA 4).
Pridoli carbon isotope trend and upper Silurian to lowermost Devonian chemostratigraphy based on sections in Podolia (Ukraine) and the East Baltic area/Susinikisotoopide suhte arengutrend Pridolis ja Ulem-Siluri ning Devoni alguse kemostratigraafia Podoolia (Ukraina) ja Baltikumi andmetel
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