Kiangsuaspis Temporal range: Late
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Comparison of Kiangsuaspis nakingaspis and Xiushuiaspis | |
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Genus: | Kiangsuaspis P'an, 1962
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Kiangsuaspis nankingensis P'an, 1962
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Kiangsuaspis nankingensis is an extinct phyllocarid crustaceans from Late Silurian China. It was originally described in 1962 by Kiang P'an as an incomplete ventral plate of a cyathaspidid heterostracan agnathan with a unique pattern of raised, sculptured tubercles that fuse together into anastomosing ridges. [4] In 1984, Jiang P'an then reappraised it as a ceratiocaridid crustacean. [1] [2] [3]
Kiangsuaspis Temporal range: Late
Silurian
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Comparison of Kiangsuaspis nakingaspis and Xiushuiaspis | |
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Genus: | Kiangsuaspis P'an, 1962
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Kiangsuaspis nankingensis P'an, 1962
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Kiangsuaspis nankingensis is an extinct phyllocarid crustaceans from Late Silurian China. It was originally described in 1962 by Kiang P'an as an incomplete ventral plate of a cyathaspidid heterostracan agnathan with a unique pattern of raised, sculptured tubercles that fuse together into anastomosing ridges. [4] In 1984, Jiang P'an then reappraised it as a ceratiocaridid crustacean. [1] [2] [3]