Malvinella buddeae


Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Trilobita
Order
Phacopida
Suborder
Phacopina
Superfamily
Acastoidea
Family
Calmoniidae
Binomial Name
Malvinella buddeae
Formation
Sica Formation, Andes, 4000' altitude
Locale
Sica, Bolivia
Age
Early Devonian
Notes

Like the other Bolivian bugs in my collection this one was found by cracking open a concretion.

The glabella is pustulose and the thorax is covered with small sharp nodes. It is likely that if a careful air abrasion prep was done of one of these bugs the nodes would turn out to be short spines, which are left in the counterpart when the concretion is cracked open.


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Malvinella buddeae


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Malvinella buddeae left side


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