- from the
Middle Silurian to Late Devonian.
Anatomically speaking, the
osteostracans,
especially the
Devonian species, were
among the most
advanced of all...
- Gr****: ἀσπίς aspís, 'shield') is a
possibly monotypic genus of
extinct osteostracan agnathan vertebrate. It was a trout-sized
detritivorous fish that lived...
- Keating,
Joseph N.; Sansom,
Robert S.; Purnell, Mark A. (2012). "A new
osteostracan fauna from the
Devonian of the
Welsh Borderlands and
observations on...
- most do have a
dorsal or a
caudal fin. Some
fossil agnathans, such as
osteostracans and pituriaspids, did have
paired fins, a
trait inherited in
their jawed...
-
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...
-
Cephalaspidomorphs are a
superclass of
jawless fishes named for
Cephalaspis of the
osteostracans. Most
biologists regard this
taxon as extinct, but the name is sometimes...
-
Thyestes is an
extinct genus of
osteostracan agnathan vertebrate of
Europe whose fossils are
found in
Middle to Late Ludlow-aged
marine strata of Late...
-
Boreaspis (meaning "Boreas's Shield") is an
extinct genus of
osteostracan agnathan vertebrate that
lived in the
Devonian period.
Fourteen different species...
-
Zenaspidida is an
extinct order of
osteostracans, a
group of
jawless stem-gnathostomes. They
possessed a
distinct headshield,
which varied in
width to...
-
Tremataspis is a
genus of an
extinct osteostracan agnathan from the
Silurian period of what is now Estonia.
Tremataspis was
about 10
centimetres (3.9 in)...
