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Pteraspid
order of fishes (fossil) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pteraspids were early agnathan vertebrates. They lived from later Silurian to the end of the Devonian. Fossils are found in Europe and North America.
Quick Facts Pteraspid Temporal range: Upper Silurian-Devonian, Scientific classification ...
Pteraspid | |
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Lamiaspis longiripa | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Superclass: | Agnatha |
Class: | †Pteraspidomorphi |
Subclass: | †Heterostraci |
Order: | †Pteraspidiformes Berg 1940 |
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The whole group has the head and front of the body armoured. Delicate, finger-like parts of the plates were at the edges of the mouth. This suggests they were filter feeders taking plankton from the water column.[1]