Cephalaspidida

Extinct order of jawless fishes

Cephalaspidida
Cephalaspis tenuicornis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
†Osteostraci
Subclass:
†Cornuata
Order:
Cephalaspidida

Moy-Thomas and Mile 1971
Families
  • †Cephalaspidae
  • Genus incertae sedis †Superciliaspis
Synonyms
  • Cephalaspida
  • Cephalaspidiformes

Cephalaspidida is an extinct order of jawless fish in the subclass Cornuata.

See also

  • Undichna, a fish-fin, or fish-swimming fossil trail left as a fossil impression on a substrate, or the opposite impression on an overlying substrate
  • Anatol Heintz (1898–1975), a Norwegian palaeontologist who published in 1939 Cephalaspida from Downtonian of Norway, about cephalaspida excavated at Ringerike.

References

  • J. A. Moy-Thomas and R. S. Mile. 1971. Palaeozoic Fishes
  • "Cephalaspidida" at the Encyclopedia of Life
  • Cephalaspidida at fossilworks.org (retrieved 16 April 2016)
Taxon identifiers
Cephalaspidida
  • Wikidata: Q25095560
  • Wikispecies: Cephalaspidida
  • Paleobiology Database: 251938


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