| Benneviaspidida Temporal range: Early
Devonian
| |
|---|---|
| |
| Life restoration of Boreaspis | |
Scientific classification
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | † Osteostraci |
| Order: | † Benneviaspidida |
| Subgroups [1] | |
| |
Benneviaspidida is an order of osteostracan jawless fishes which lived in the Early Devonian. The fishes in this order have a flat headshield and are dorsoventrally depressed. The first canal to lateral sensory field bifurcates near the orbit.
The cladogram below is adapted from Sansom (2009): [1]
| Benneviaspidida | |
- ^ a b Sansom, R. S. (2009). "Phylogeny, classification and character polarity of the Osteostraci (Vertebrata)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 7 (1): 95–115. doi: 10.1017/S1477201908002551.
| Benneviaspidida Temporal range: Early
Devonian
| |
|---|---|
|
| |
| Life restoration of Boreaspis | |
|
Scientific classification
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | † Osteostraci |
| Order: | † Benneviaspidida |
| Subgroups [1] | |
| |
Benneviaspidida is an order of osteostracan jawless fishes which lived in the Early Devonian. The fishes in this order have a flat headshield and are dorsoventrally depressed. The first canal to lateral sensory field bifurcates near the orbit.
The cladogram below is adapted from Sansom (2009): [1]
| Benneviaspidida | |
- ^ a b Sansom, R. S. (2009). "Phylogeny, classification and character polarity of the Osteostraci (Vertebrata)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 7 (1): 95–115. doi: 10.1017/S1477201908002551.