Calyptaulax

Calyptaulax is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida that existed during the middle and upper Ordovician in what is now the U.S. states of New York, Oklahoma, Illinois, Missouri, Virginia, Vermont, Nevada, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kentucky, and Iowa, as well as the Canadian provinces of Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, and the territory of Nunavut. Other countries Calyptaulax fossils are known from include Ireland, Norway, Russia, and the United Kingdom.

Calyptaulax
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	†Artiopoda
Class:	†Trilobita
Order:	†Phacopida
Family:	†Pterygometopidae
Genus:	†Calyptaulax Cooper, 1930[1]

Type species

By original designation; Calyptaulax glabella Cooper, 1930: pp. 388 - 389, pl. 5, figs. 9 - 11. From the Matapedia Group (Ashgill), Perce, Quebec, Canada.^[2]

Other species

• Calyptaulax annulata Raymond, 1905
• Calyptaulax callicephala Hall, 1847
• Calyptaulax callirachis Cooper, 1953
• Calyptaulax cornwalli Ross, Jr. and Barnes, 1967
• Calyptaulax holstonensis Raymond, 1925
• Calyptaulax incepta Whittington, 1965
• Calyptaulax norvegicus Stormer, 1945
• Calyptaulax sillimani Roy, 1941
• Calyptaulax strasburgensis Ulrich and Delo, 1940