Benneviaspidida

Benneviaspidida

Benneviaspidida

Order of fossil fishes

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.

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Phylogeny

The cladogram below is adapted from Sansom (2009):[1]

Benneviaspidida

Ectinaspis

Securiaspis

"Benneviaspis" longicornis

"Benneviaspis" anglica

"Benneviaspis" lankasteri

Benneviaspis

Boreaspidoidea

Hoelaspis

Severaspis

"Boreaspis" ceratops

"Boreaspis" intermedia

Boreaspis

Dicranaspis

Spatulaspis

Belonaspis

Hapilaspis

Tauraspis

References

  1. [1]
    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.
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