''Bornholmaspis'' is a genus of

trilobite Trilobites (; meaning "three lobes") are extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita. Trilobites form one of the earliest-known groups of arthropods. The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record defines the base of the ...

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 thorac ...

, which existed in what is now

Bornholm Bornholm () is a 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. It has usually been ruled by ...

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. 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 is an online resource for information on the distribution and classification of fossil animals, plants, and microorganisms. History The Paleobiology Database (PBDB) originated in the NCEAS-funded Phanerozoic Marine Paleo ...

Fossil taxa described in 1983 Fossils of Denmark Cheiruridae Phacopida genera {{phacopida-stub