Arcticalymene

{{Short description|Extinct genus of trilobites}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Early LudlowSandford, A. C. "Trilobite faunas and palaeoenvironmental setting of the Silurian (early Ludlow) Melbourne Formation, central Victoria." Alcheringa24.3 (2000): 153-206.-Late WenlockAdrain, Jonathan M., and Gregory D. Edgecombe. "Silurian (Wenlock) calymenid trilobites from the Cape Phillips Formation, central Canadian Arctic." Journal of Paleontology 71.04 (1997): 657-682.

| taxon = Arcticalymene

| authority = Adrain and Edgecombe, 1997

| type_species = Arcticalymene viciousi

| type_species_authority = Adrain and Edgecombe, 1997

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• A. australis Sandford, 2000
• A. cooki Adrain and Edgecombe, 1997
• A. jonesi Adrain and Edgecombe, 1997
• A. matlocki Adrain and Edgecombe, 1997
• A. rotteni Adrain and Edgecombe, 1997
• A. viciousi Adrain and Edgecombe, 1997

}}

Arcticalymene is a genus of trilobites found in Silurian-aged marine strata of Arctic Canada and Central Victoria, Australia. The Canadian species are named after each of the Sex Pistols: A. cooki (Paul Cook), A. jonesi (Steve Jones), A. matlocki (Glen Matlock), A. rotteni (Johnny Rotten) and A. viciousi (Sid Vicious), all named by Adrain and Edgecombe in 1997.[http://www.curioustaxonomy.net/etym/people.html Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature]