Glyptambon

Glyptambon
Temporal range: Silurian
Fossil of G. verrucosus in the Field Museum of Natural History.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Trilobita
Order:
Phacopida
Family:
Dalmanitidae
Subfamily:
Dalmanitinae
Genus:
Glyptambon

Holloway, 1981
Species
  • G. verrucosus Holloway, 1981 (type)
  • G. amsdeni Edgecombe, 1991
  • G. gassi Edgecombe, 1991
Internal mold of pygidium (missing terminal spine) of Glyptambon gassi from the inter-reef beds of the Racine Dolomite Formation, Illinois.

Glyptambon is an extinct genus of Silurian trilobite in the order Phacopida. It is a member of the family Dalmanitidae and the subfamily Dalmanitinae, although it has been classified in the related Ordovician subfamily Mucronaspidinae. The type species G. verrucosus was previously placed in Dalmania and later in Dalmanites. Because this species was considered distinct from other Dalmania and Dalmanites species, the new genus Glyptambon was erected for it in 1981.[1]G. amsdeni and G. gassi were named in 1991 from Tennessee and Illinois, respectively.[2]

  1. ^ Holloway, D.J. (1981). "Silurian dalmanitacean trilobites from North America and the origins of the Dalmanitinae and Synphoriinae" (PDF). Palaeontology. 24 (4): 96–103.
  2. ^ Edgecombe, G.D. (1991). "The Silurian dalmanitid trilobite Glyptambon Holloway: new species from Tennessee and Illinois" (PDF). Journal of Paleontology. 65 (2): 294–300. Bibcode:1991JPal...65..294E. doi:10.1017/S0022336000020527.