Metacalymene is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida, family Calymenidae. This genus is considered monotypic, containing only the type species:
Metacalymene baylei Barrande, 1846.
These trilobites were nektobenthic detritivore. They lived in the Silurian period in the Ludlow epoch, from 422.9 ± 1.5 to 418.7 ± 2.8 million years ago.
Distribution Silurian of the Czech Republic.
References Biolib Selenopeltis in the Paleobiology Database Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Trilobita DJ Siveter – 1979 - Metacalymene Kegel, 1927, a Calymenid Trilobite from the Kopanika Formation (Silurian) of Bohemia