Bellacartwrightia

Bellacartwrightia
Temporal range: Middle Devonian
Bellacartwrightia calliteles, 18 mm
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: †Trilobita
Order: †Phacopida
Family: †Acastidae
Genus: †Bellacartwrightia
Lieberman & Kloc, 1997[1]
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.

  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.