Bellacartwrightia
Bellacartwrightia Temporal range: Middle Devonian | |
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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 | |
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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