Biology:Cephalaspidida

Short description: 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

External links

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• Cephalaspidida at fossilworks.org (retrieved 16 April 2016)

Wikidata ☰ Q25095560 entry