Etymology
The generic epithet is a compound word of the Greek words "Typhlos," meaning "blind," and "Korynetes," which means "club-bearer," in reference to the animal's eyeless state, and the glabellum that is shaped in the outline of a club or bowling pin. The specific name "plana" refers to the flattened nature of the body.History of taxonomy
The first fossils of this trilobite were described by P. E. Raymond in 1937 as a blind proetid that he named "''Warburgella" plana''.RAYMOND, P.E., 1937, Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician Trilobita and Ostracoda from Vermont: Geol. Soc. America, Bull., v. 48, p. 1079-1146, 4 pls In 1959, "''W." plana'' would be redescribed by H. B. Whittington as a species of ''Raymondaspis'' in the family Styginidae.WHITTINGTON, H. B., 1959a, Family Styginidae, in Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, pt. 0, Arthropoda 1: Lawrence, Kansas, Geol. Soc. America and Kansas Univ. Press, p. 365-367, Figs. 275-277 Alan Shaw voiced a similar opinion when he moved it into its own genus and family, ''Typhlokorynetes'' in Typhlokorynetidae, in that it maybe a specialized styginid with unusual or aberrant sutures and hypostome anatomy. During the 1970s, it was then reappraised as a relative of ''Endymion'' in Raphiophoridae.Occurrence
Specimens are known from the Highgate Formation in northwestern Vermont.References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q104834163 Asaphida Ordovician trilobites of North America Geology of Vermont