Bellacartwrightia

Bellacartwrightia Temporal range: Middle Devonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Bellacartwrightia calliteles, 18 mm
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	† Trilobita
Order:	† Phacopida
Family:	† Acastidae
Genus:	† Bellacartwrightia Lieberman & Kloc, 1997 [1]
Species
B. jennyaeLieberman & Kloc, 1997 (type) B. calderonaeLieberman & Kloc, 1997 B. calliteles(Green 1837) = Cryphaeus calliteles B. phyllocaudataLieberman & Kloc, 1997 B. pleione(Hall, 1861) = Dalmania pleione, Dalmanites pleione, Greenops pleione B. whiteleyiLieberman & 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

1. 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. hdl:2246/1623 . Retrieved 16 December 2013.

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

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