†family Cephalaspidae Huxley 1861 (vertebrate)

Petromyzontida - Cephalaspidiformes - Cephalaspidae

Full reference: T. H. Huxley. 1861. Preliminary essay upon the systematic arrangment of the fishes of the Devonian Epoch. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, decade 10 23:1-40

Parent taxon: Cephalaspidiens according to P. Janvier 1985

See also Bryant 1933, Gardiner 1966, Hay 1902, Huxley 1861 and Moy-Thomas and Mile 1971

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Eukeraspis

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Type: Cephalaspis

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Cephalaspidae in the database

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