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Burmeisteria

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Homalonotidae

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Trilobita

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Phacopida

Similar
  
Homalonotidae, Homalonotus, Dipleura, Afrops, Phacopida

Burmeisteria is a trilobite in the order Phacopida (family Homalonotidae) that existed during the lower Devonian in what is now South Africa. It was described by Salter in 1865, and the type species is Burmeisteria herschelii, which was originally described under the genus Homalonotus by Murchison in 1839. It also contains the species B. accraensis, B. acuminata, and B. noticus. The type locality was the Bokkeveld Group.

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Burmeisteria Wikipedia