Belotelson

Belotelson
Temporal range: Pennsylvanian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Belotelsonidea
Family: Belotelsonidae
Genus: Belotelson
Packard, 1886
Species
  • Belotelson magister Packard, 1886
  • Belotelson traquairi (Peach, 1882)

Belotelson is a genus of crustaceans, in the extinct order Belotelsonidea, containing at least two species.[1] It was first named by Packard in 1886 from material foundin the Mazon Creek lagerstätte in Illinois. Its fossils have been found in Pennsylvanian age rocks.[2]

  • "Large Mazon Creek Fossil Crustacean Belotelson". Fossilmseum.net.

References

  1. ↑ Frederick Schram (2006). "Lobetelson mclaughlinae n. gen., n. sp., a new genus and species of belotelsonid malacostracan from the Pennsylvanian of the Mazon Creek area" (PDF). Zoosystema. 28 (2): 277–284. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-12.
  2. ↑ "Bulletins of American paleontology" (44). Paleontological Research Institution. 1962: 229, 321.


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