''Burmeisteria'' 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 ...

(family

Homalonotidae Homalonotidae is a family of trilobites that lived from the Ordovician to the Devonian. They are characterised by a shovel-like cephalon (arthropod anatomy), cephalon (head), and are closely related to the family Calymenidae. It contains the fol ...

) that existed during the lower

Devonian The Devonian ( ) is a period (geology), geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system of the Paleozoic era (geology), era during the Phanerozoic eon (geology), eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian per ...

in what is now

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...

. It was described by Salter in 1865, and the

type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...

is ''Burmeisteria herschelii'', which was originally described under the genus ''

Homalonotus ''Homalonotus'' is an extinct genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida. It contains several species, including ''H. armatus'' and ''H. roemeri''. It is closely related to other trilobites such as ''Arduennella'' and ''Dipleura''.. Distributio ...

'' by Murchison in 1839. It also contains the species ''B. accraensis'', ''B. acuminata'', and ''B. noticus''. The type locality was the

Bokkeveld Group The Bokkeveld Group is the second of the three main subdivisions of the Cape Supergroup in South Africa. It overlies the Table Mountain Group and underlies the Witteberg Group. The Bokkeveld Group rocks are considered to range between Lower Dev ...

.Available Generic Names for Trilobites
P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.

References

External links

''Burmeisteria''
at the

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Devonian trilobites of Africa Homalonotidae Phacopida genera Fossil taxa described in 1865 {{phacopida-stub