Buenaspis
| Buenaspis forteyi Temporal range: | |
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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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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. 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.