Biology:Valyalepis

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Valyalepis is an extinct genus of thelodonts in the family Loganelliidae. It lived in the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago during the earliest part of the Silurian period.[1][2]

Isolated scales of Valyalepis are robust and abrasion-resistant, similar to modern sharks which live among rough substrates such as rocky caves or reefs.[3][4]

References

  1. "Valyalepis Turner & Nowlan, 1995" (in en). https://www.gbif.org/species/4815510. 
  2. Märss, T; Männik, P (2013). "Revision of Silurian vertebrate biozones and their correlation with the conodont succession" (in en). Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 62 (4): 181. doi:10.3176/earth.2013.15. ISSN 1736-4728. http://www.kirj.ee/?id=23148&tpl=1061&c_tpl=1064. 
  3. Ferrón, Humberto G.; Botella, Héctor (2017). "Squamation and ecology of thelodonts". PLOS ONE 12 (2). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0172781. PMID 28241029. Bibcode2017PLoSO..1272781F. 
  4. Ferrón, Humberto G; Martínez-Pérez, Carlos; Turner, Susan; Manzanares, Esther; Botella, Héctor (2018). "Patterns of ecological diversification in thelodonts". Palaeontology 61 (2): 303–315. doi:10.1111/pala.12347. 

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