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Genus of extinct fish From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Erikaspis is an extinct monospecific genus of arthrodire placoderm fish found in Lochkovian-Pragian (Lower Devonian) deposits of Podolia, Western Ukraine. The type species Erikaspis zychi was originally described in 1945 by Erik Stensiö based on a partial skull-roof, and was named Kujdanowiaspis zychi. In 2007, it was subsequently reassigned to the newly named genus Erikaspis, based on significant differences from Kujdanowiaspis.[1][2]
Erikaspis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | †Placodermi |
Order: | †Arthrodira |
Genus: | †Erikaspis Dupret, Goujet & Mark-Kurik, 2007 |
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It is one of the more basal members of the order Arthrodira, as shown in the cladogram below:[3]
Actinolepidoidei
Phlyctaeniina |
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