Cyathaspis
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cyathaspis-203-945182
title:
Cyathaspis
text:
Cyathaspis is the type genus of the heterostracan order Cyathaspidiformes. 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. 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. Cyathaspis ludensis is the earliest British vertebrate fossil. I
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Extinct genus of jawless fishes
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyathaspis
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date modified:
2023-05-27T23:39:29Z
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13
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