Buenellus higginsi Blaker 1988 (trilobite)

Trilobita - Redlichiida - Nevadiidae

Full reference: M. R. Blaker. 1988. A new genus of nevadiid trilobite from the Buen Formation (Early Cambrian) of Peary Land, central North Greenland. Rapport Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse 137:33-41

Belongs to Buenellus according to L. E. Babcock and J. S. Peel 2007

See also Palmer and Repina 1993

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MGUH 18.287, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is GGU sample 319571, which is in a Montezuman/Dyeran deep subtidal mudstone in the Buen Formation of Greenland.

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Cambrian of Greenland (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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