Bellacartwrightia

Bellacartwrightia Temporal range: Middle Devonian PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N

Bellacartwrightia calliteles, 18 mm
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Trilobita
Order:	Phacopida
Suborder:	Phacopina
Superfamily:	Acastoidea
Family:	Acastidae
Subfamily:	Asteropyginae
Genus:	Bellacartwrightia^[1] Lieberman & Kloc, 1997
Species
B. jennyae Lieberman & Kloc, 1997 (type) B. calderonae Lieberman & Kloc, 1997 B. calliteles (Green 1837) = Cryphaeus calliteles B. phyllocaudata Lieberman & Kloc, 1997 B. pleione (Hall, 1861) = Dalmania pleione, Dalmanites pleione, Greenops pleione B. whiteleyi Lieberman & Kloc, 1997

Bellacartwrightia is a relatively uncommon genus of Phacopid trilobite, found in the mid-Devonian Hamilton Group of New York state, mainly in strata exposed near Lake Erie just west of Buffalo. This trilobite is usually about 1.5" to 2" long. A very similar trilobite from the Devonian of Morocco is still sold as Metacanthina, but considerable research is still being done on Moroccan trilobites.

References

↑ Lieberman, B.S.; Kloc, G.J. (1997). "Evolutionary and biogeographical patterns in the Asteropyginae (Trilobita, Devonian) Delo, 1935". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 232. Retrieved 16 December 2013.

Brett, Carleton, et al., Trilobites of New York. Rochester: Rochester University Press, 2003.

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