Bellacartwrightia

Taxobox
name = "Bellacartwrightia"
fossil_range = Devonian


image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Bellacartwrightia sp."
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Trilobita
ordo = Phacopida
subordo = Phacopina
superfamilia = Acastoidea
familia = Acastidae
genus = "Bellacartwrightia"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = ?

"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. It was previously known as "Metacanthina".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

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