Pteraspidomorpha - Pteraspidiformes - Pteraspididae

Full reference: D. K. Elliott, H. Schultze, and A. Blieck. 2015. A new pteraspid (Agnatha, Heterostraci) from the Lower Devonian Drake Bay Formation, Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut, Arctic Canada, and comments on environmental preferences of pteraspids. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(6):e1005098

Parent taxon: Pteraspididae according to D. K. Elliott et al. 2015

Sister taxa: Archaeoteuthis, Chiastolepis, Doryaspidinae, Ecphymaspis, Europrotaspis, Glossoidaspis, Holaspis, Kallostrakon, Mylopteraspis, Palaeoteuthis, Podolaspis, Pteraspidinae, Rhachiaspis, Scaphaspis, Scutellaspis, Semipodolaspis, Sphagodus

Subtaxa: Mitraspis cracens

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Locality P8 of Langenstrassen and Schultze (1996). (Devonian of Nunavut)

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