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Pteraspis banksii
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Cyathaspis is the type genus of the heterostracan order Cyathaspidiformes. [1] Fossils are found in late Silurian strata in the Cunningham Creek Formation, New Brunswick, Canada and Europe, especially in the Downton Castle Sandstone of Great Britain and Gotland, Sweden.[ citation needed] The living animal would have looked superficially like a tadpole, albeit covered in bony plates composed of the tissue aspidine, which is unique to heterostracan armor.[ citation needed]
Cyathaspis ludensis is the earliest British vertebrate fossil.[ citation needed] It was found in rocks at Leintwardine in Herefordshire, a noted fossil locality.[ citation needed]
References
- ^ Matthew, George Frederic (1888). On Some Remarkable Organisms of the Silunian and Devonian Rocks in Southern New Brunswick. pp. 52–54.
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- Cyathaspidida
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| Genus: | Cyathaspis Lankester
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Pteraspis banksii
Huxley and Salter, 1856
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Cyathaspis is the type genus of the heterostracan order Cyathaspidiformes. [1] Fossils are found in late Silurian strata in the Cunningham Creek Formation, New Brunswick, Canada and Europe, especially in the Downton Castle Sandstone of Great Britain and Gotland, Sweden.[ citation needed] The living animal would have looked superficially like a tadpole, albeit covered in bony plates composed of the tissue aspidine, which is unique to heterostracan armor.[ citation needed]
Cyathaspis ludensis is the earliest British vertebrate fossil.[ citation needed] It was found in rocks at Leintwardine in Herefordshire, a noted fossil locality.[ citation needed]
References
- ^ Matthew, George Frederic (1888). On Some Remarkable Organisms of the Silunian and Devonian Rocks in Southern New Brunswick. pp. 52–54.
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- Cyathaspidida
- Cyathaspidiformes genera
- Wenlock first appearances
- Ludlow life
- Silurian extinctions
- Silurian jawless fish
- Silurian fish of Europe
- Fossils of Sweden
- Silurian England
- Silurian fish of North America
- Paleozoic life of New Brunswick
- Paleozoic life of Nunavut
- Pteraspidomorphi stubs
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