Buccaspinea

Buccaspinea
Temporal range: Drumian
Fossil material of Buccaspinea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Order: Radiodonta
Family: Hurdiidae
Genus: Buccaspinea
Pates et al, 2021
Species:
B. cooperi
Binomial name
Buccaspinea cooperi
Pates et al, 2021

Buccaspinea is an extinct genus of Cambrian hurdiid radiodont from the Marjum Formation, known from frontal appendages and a nearly complete albeit headless specimen with a preserved oral cone.[1] Buccaspinea was described in January 2021, being the second-most recent hurdiid genus to be described.

  1. ^ Pates, Stephen; Lerosey-Aubril, Rudy; Daley, Allison C.; Kier, Carlo; Bonino, Enrico; Ortega-Hernández, Javier (19 January 2021). "The diverse radiodont fauna from the Marjum Formation of Utah, USA (Cambrian: Drumian)". Palaeontology and Evolutionary Science. 9: e10509. doi:10.7717/peerj.10509. PMC 7821760. PMID 33552709.