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

Dwergenpaartje · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcastidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Acastidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 20 of 20 occurrencesDevonian394–393 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393–393 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 1 occurrence387–387 Mya — about 1 occurrence387–387 Mya — about 1 occurrence387–386 Mya — about 1 occurrence386–386 Mya — about 1 occurrence386–385 Mya — about 1 occurrence385–385 Mya — about 1 occurrence385–385 Mya — about 1 occurrence385–384 Mya — about 1 occurrence384–384 Mya — about 1 occurrence384–383 Mya — about 1 occurrence383–383 Mya — about 1 occurrence383–383 Mya — about 1 occurrence383–382 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences394 Mya381.8 Mya

20 occurrences of Bellacartwrightia on record, most of them in the Devonian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

20 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

5 formations

Moscow — 42.56°N, 74.58°WMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.01°WMoscow — 42.69°N, 76.74°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 76.03°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 75.91°WMoscow — 42.79°N, 76.15°WTully — 42.79°N, 75.80°WTully — 42.53°N, 76.53°WTully — 42.74°N, 75.88°WSkaneateles — 42.89°N, 76.13°WSkaneateles — 42.98°N, 76.09°WLudlowville — 42.77°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.73°N, 76.71°WJaycox — 42.89°N, 77.70°W

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The named rock units Bellacartwrightia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Bellacartwrightia and its relatives

Devonian

Where Bellacartwrightia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

139 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Bellacartwrightia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

4 references

Each of the 20 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Bellacartwrightia

Credit
Dwergenpaartje
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAcastidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lieberman and Kloc 1997