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''Bornholmaspis'' is a genus of
trilobite Trilobites (; meaning "three-lobed entities") are extinction, extinct marine arthropods that form the class (biology), class Trilobita. One of the earliest groups of arthropods to appear in the fossil record, trilobites were among the most succ ...
s in the order
Phacopida Phacopida ("lens-face") is an order of trilobites that lived from the Late Cambrian to the Late Devonian. It is made up of a morphologically diverse assemblage of taxa in three related suborders. Characteristics Phacopida had 8 to 19 thoraci ...
, which existed in what is now
Bornholm Bornholm () is a List of islands of Denmark, Danish island in the Baltic Sea, to the east of the rest of Denmark, south of Sweden, northeast of Germany and north of Poland. Strategically located, Bornholm has been fought over for centuries. I ...
,
Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...
. It was described by Přibyl and Vaněk in 1983, and the type species is ''Bornholmaspis inflatus'', which was originally described as ''Pseudosphaerexochus inflatus'', and later as ''Pateraspis inflatus'' by Poulsen in 1965.Available Generic Names for Trilobites
P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.


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''Bornholmaspis''
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Paleobiology Database The Paleobiology Database (PBDB) is an online resource for information on the distribution and classification of fossil animals, plants, and microorganisms. History The Paleobiology Database originated in the NCEAS-funded Phanerozoic Marine Pale ...
Fossil taxa described in 1983 Fossils of Denmark Cheiruridae Phacopida genera {{phacopida-stub