Bellacartwrightia

Bellacartwrightia; Temporal range: Middle Devonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Bellacartwrightia calliteles, 18 mm
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Trilobita
Order:	Phacopida
Suborder:	Phacopina
Superfamily:	Acastoidea
Family:	Acastidae
Subfamily:	Asteropyginae
Genus:	Bellacartwrightia; 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 ;

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

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

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[LiebermanKloc-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.

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