Buenaspis

Buenaspis forteyi
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: †Artiopoda
Order: †Nektaspida
Genus: †Buenaspis
Budd, 1999
Species:
†B. forteyi
Binomial name
†Buenaspis forteyi
Budd, 1999

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.

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