Tiaraspis
Appearance
Tiaraspis | |
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Artist's reconstruction | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | †Placodermi |
Order: | †Arthrodira |
Family: | †Groenlandaspididae |
Genus: | †Tiaraspis Gross, 1962 |
Species: | †T. subtilis
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Binomial name | |
†Tiaraspis subtilis Gross, 1933
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Tiaraspis subtilis is the oldest known member of the arthrodire placoderm family Groenlandaspidae. Its fossils are found from Early Devonian Germany, ranging from the Pragian epoch until the Emsian.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Schultze, Hans-Peter (1984). "The head shield of Tiaraspis subtilis (Gross) [Pisces, Arthrodira]". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 107: 355––365.