Cephalaspidae
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Cephalaspidae is an extinct family of jawless fish in the class Osteostraci. The best known genus is Cephalaspis, which has long been used as a wastebasket taxon, and it is unclear whether there are any true members of Cephalaspidae other than Cephalaspis itself.[1]
References
[edit]- ↑ El Fassi El Fehri, Amin; Grohganz, Madleen; Sansom, Robert S.; Benton, Michael J.; Keating, Joseph N. (2026-07). "The taxonomy and phylogeny of British 'cephalaspids'". Palaeontology. 69 (4). doi:10.1111/pala.70080. ISSN 0031-0239.
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- J. A. Moy-Thomas and R. S. Mile. 1971. Palaeozoic Fishes
- T. H. Huxley. 1861. Preliminary essay upon the systematic arrangement of the fishes of the Devonian Epoch. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, decade 10 23:1-40
External links
[edit]- "Cephalaspidae". The Encyclopedia of Life.
- Cephalaspidae at fossilworks.org (retrieved 16 April 2016)
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