Pteraspidomorpha - Pteraspidiformes - Psammosteidae
Synonym: Psammosteus kiaeri Halstead Tarlo 1964 [replaced name]
Full reference: V. N. Glinskiy and S. P. Nilov. 2017. A new psammosteid (Agnatha, Heterostraci) from the Amata Regional Stage of the Main Devonian Field and morpho-histological types of discrete micromeric elements in the family Psammosteidae. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 66(2):59
Belongs to Traquairosteus according to V. N. Glinskiy and S. P. Nilov 2017
See also Glinskiy and Mark-Kurik 2016 and Halstead Tarlo 1964
Sister taxa: Traquairosteus falcatus, Traquairosteus pectinatus, Traquairosteus pustulatus, Traquairosteus ramosus
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Skrap valley (Devonian of Nunavut)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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