Bellacartwrightia

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.

Bellacartwrightia
Temporal range: Middle Devonian
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

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


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