Buenaspis
Small Cambrian arthropod / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Buenaspis is a genus of small ( 1 to 3 centimetres (0.39 to 1.18 in) long) nektaspid arthropod, that lived during the early Cambrian period.[1] Fossil remains of Buenaspis were collected from the Lower Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte of North Greenland. Buenaspis looks like a soft eyeless trilobite. It has a headshield (or cephalon) slightly larger than the tailshield (pygidium), and in between them six thoracic body segments (somites). The genus is monotypic, its sole species being Buenaspis forteyi.
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Buenaspis forteyi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Order: | †Nektaspida |
Genus: | †Buenaspis Budd, 1999 |
Species: | †B. forteyi |
Binomial name | |
†Buenaspis forteyi Budd, 1999 | |
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