Belotelson

{{Short description|Extinct genus of crustaceans}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Pennsylvanian}} | image = Belotelson.jpg | taxon = Belotelson | authority = Packard, 1886 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = *''Belotelson magister'' <small>Packard, 1886</small> *''Belotelson traquairi'' <small>(Peach, 1882)</small> }}

'''''Belotelson''''' is a genus of crustaceans, in the extinct order Belotelsonidea, containing at least two species.<ref>{{cite journal |title=''Lobetelson mclaughlinae'' n. gen., n. sp., a new genus and species of belotelsonid malacostracan from the Pennsylvanian of the Mazon Creek area |author=Frederick Schram |journal=Zoosystema |year=2006 |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=277–284 |url=http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/8122_z06n2a1.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612060408/http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/8122_z06n2a1.pdf |archivedate=2011-06-12 }}</ref> It was first named by Packard in 1886 from material found in the Mazon Creek ''lagerstätte'' in Illinois. Its fossils have been found in Pennsylvanian age rocks.<ref>{{cite journal |pages=229, 321 |title=Bulletins of American paleontology |issue=44 |publisher=Paleontological Research Institution |year=1962}}</ref>

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==External links== *{{cite web |url=http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Fossil_Sites/Mazon-Creek/Belotelson-magister/Belotelson.htm |title=Large Mazon Creek Fossil Crustacean ''Belotelson'' |publisher=Fossilmseum.net}}

Category:Prehistoric Malacostraca Category:Prehistoric crustacean genera Category:Carboniferous crustaceans Category:Fossils of the United States Category:Carboniferous animals of North America Category:Taxa named by Alpheus Spring Packard