Pteraspidomorpha - Pteraspidiformes - Protopteraspididae
Synonyms: Pteraspis (Simopteraspis) Denison 1970, Simopteraspis Denison 1970
Full reference: M. Leriche. 1924. Les Pteraspis du Devonien de la Belgique. Bulletin de la Société belge de géologie, de paléontologie et d'hydrologie 33:143-159
Parent taxon: Protopteraspididae according to E. Randle and R. S. Sansom 2017
See also Blieck 1984, Blieck et al. 2002 and Denison 1970
Sister taxa: Canadapteraspis, Escharaspis, Gigantaspis, Loricopteraspis, Miltaspis, Stegobranchiaspis, Trygonaspis, Zascinaspis
Subtaxa: Protopteraspis arctica Protopteraspis corniga Protopteraspis gosseleti Protopteraspis micra Protopteraspis primaeva Protopteraspis pygmaea Protopteraspis sartokia Protopteraspis siliktokia Protopteraspis vogti
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Canada (2: Nova Scotia, Nunavut collections), France (1), Norway (10), the Russian Federation (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (18)
Total: 33 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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