Glyptambon

{{Short description|Genus of trilobites}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Silurian

| image = Glyptambon verrucosus.jpg

| image_caption = Fossil of G. verrucosus in the Field Museum of Natural History.

| taxon = Glyptambon

| authority = Holloway, 1981

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• G. verrucosus Holloway, 1981 (type)
• G. amsdeni Edgecombe, 1991
• G. gassi Edgecombe, 1991

}}

File: Glyptambon gassi pygidium.jpg

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.{{cite journal |last=Holloway |first=D.J. |year=1981 |title=Silurian dalmanitacean trilobites from North America and the origins of the Dalmanitinae and Synphoriinae|journal=Palaeontology |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=96–103

|url=https://www.palass.org/sites/default/files/media/publications/palaeontology/volume_24/vol24_part4_pp695-731.pdf}}G. amsdeni and G. gassi were named in 1991 from Tennessee and Illinois, respectively.{{cite journal |last=Edgecombe |first=G.D. |year=1991 | doi=10.1017/S0022336000020527 |title=The Silurian dalmanitid trilobite Glyptambon Holloway: new species from Tennessee and Illinois |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=65 |issue=2 |pages=294–300|bibcode=1991JPal...65..294E |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/resources-rx/files/edgecombe-1991-glyptambon-94186.pdf}}