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Buenellus higginsi
Taxonomy
Buenellus higginsi was named by Blaker (1988) [Geological Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark]. Its type specimen is MGUH 18.287, an exoskeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is GGU 319571. J.P. Koch Fjord, which is in a Montezuman/Dyeran deep subtidal mudstone in the Buen Formation of Greenland. It is the type species of Buenellus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1988 | Buenellus higginsi Blaker p. 36 |
| 1993 | Buenellus higginsi Palmer and Repina p. 31 |
| 2007 | Buenellus higginsi Babcock and Peel pp. 412-413 figs. figs. 2, 3A-D, F-G |
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†Buenellus higginsi Blaker 1988
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| L. E. Babcock and J. S. Peel 2007 | Cephalon semicircular, width about 1.5 to 2.25 length; ocular lobe smoothly semicircular to slightly abaxially geniculated in posterior one-third; width (tr.) of interocular area slightly narrower than extraocular area; genal area of variable width. Thorax variable but moderately wide, about 0.5 to 0.6 of maximum sagittal length, widening slightly backward to about 6th segment, then tapering posteriorly; inner pleural regions slightly wider (tr.) than axis. |
Measurements
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| References: Whittington et al. 1997, Hendy et al. 2009, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Montezuman to the top of the Atdabanian or 520.00000 to 516.00000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Atdabanian | Greenland (Peary Land) | Buenellus higginsi (90574) | |
| Montezuman | Greenland | Buenellus higginsi (8095) | |
| Montezuman - Dyeran | Greenland | Buenellus higginsi (type locality: 234292) |