Biology:Eugaleaspidiformes

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Eugaleaspidiformes (from Latin, "Helmet shield shapes") is an extinct order of jawless marine and freshwater fish, which lived in East Asia from the Telychian to the Lower Devonian period.[1] The order was first named by Lui in 1965.[2]

Phylogeny

An analysis by Zhang and colleagues in 2026 obtained the following phylogenetic tree by strict consensus of 6 maximum parsimony trees:[3]

Eugaleaspidiformes
Tujiaaspidae

Miaojiaaspis

Tujiaaspis 60x60px

Shuyuidae

Shuyu 60x60px

Meishanaspis

Qingshuiaspis

Jiangxialepis

Anjiaspis

Sinogaleaspidae

Sinogaleaspis

Rumporostralis

Yongdongaspidae

Yongdongaspis

Yunnanogaleaspis

Nochelaspis 60x60px

Tridensaspidae

Falxcornus

Tridensaspis

Pterogonaspis

Eugaleaspidae

Eugaleaspis

Xitunaspis

Dunyu

References

Works cited

  • Zhang, Yumeng; Shan, Xianren; Lin, Xianghong; Gai, Zhikun; Donoghue, Philip C. J. (February 2026). "A New Dayongaspid Galeaspid from the Silurian of the Lower Yangtze Region: Implications for Biogeography and the Evolution of Key Adaptations in Galeaspids". Journal of Earth Science 37 (1): 303–316. doi:10.1007/s12583-026-0504-6. 

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