Biology:Bellacartwrightia

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Bellacartwrightia
Temporal range: Middle Devonian
Bellacartwrigtia calliteles dorsal CRF.jpg
Bellacartwrightia calliteles, 18 mm
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Phacopida
Family: Acastidae
Genus: Bellacartwrightia
Lieberman & Kloc, 1997[1]
Species
  • B. phyllocaudata B. jennyae
  • Lieberman & Kloc, 1997 (type) Lieberman & Kloc, 1997
  • Lieberman & Kloc, 1997 B. pleione
  • B. calliteles (Hall, 1861) = Dalmania pleione, Dalmanites pleione, Greenops pleione
  • B. calderonae (Green 1837) = Cryphaeus calliteles
  • Lieberman & Kloc, 1997 B. whiteleyi

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. http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/1623. Retrieved 16 December 2013. 
  • Brett, Carleton, et al., Trilobites of New York. Rochester: Rochester University Press, 2003.

Wikidata ☰ Q4883396 entry