Trilobite - Flexicalymene meeki
Ordovician
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
ITEM# TRILO-Wisconsin-0001
This is a rare and fully-inflated 3-D specimen of Flexicalymene meeki from the Ordovician of Wisconsin. Flexicalymene is a member of the Order Phacopida, Family Calymenidae.
These trilobites 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. Ohio and North America are particularly known for being rich with Flexicalymene fossils. Species include F. meeki and F. retrorsa (Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana), F. granulosa (Ohio, Kentucky and Quebec), F. senaria (Quebec) and F. croneisi (Ontario).
Flexicalymene meeki range in size from less than a millimeter to more than an inch across and several inches long. They are most often found enrolled (in a ball) but are sometimes found fully or partially stretched out.
Calymenidae is an extinct family of nektobenthic carnivores, which are organisms that swim near the bottom of a sea or lake.
This specimen measures approximately 7/8 inch long on a matrix measuring approximately 1 3/4 long and 1 1/2 inches wide.
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
ITEM# TRILO-Wisconsin-0001
This is a rare and fully-inflated 3-D specimen of Flexicalymene meeki from the Ordovician of Wisconsin. Flexicalymene is a member of the Order Phacopida, Family Calymenidae.
These trilobites 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. Ohio and North America are particularly known for being rich with Flexicalymene fossils. Species include F. meeki and F. retrorsa (Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana), F. granulosa (Ohio, Kentucky and Quebec), F. senaria (Quebec) and F. croneisi (Ontario).
Flexicalymene meeki range in size from less than a millimeter to more than an inch across and several inches long. They are most often found enrolled (in a ball) but are sometimes found fully or partially stretched out.
Calymenidae is an extinct family of nektobenthic carnivores, which are organisms that swim near the bottom of a sea or lake.
This specimen measures approximately 7/8 inch long on a matrix measuring approximately 1 3/4 long and 1 1/2 inches wide.
$
100.00
