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Eukaia elongata

Placodermi

Taxonomy
Eukaia elongata was named by Mark-Kurik (2013). Its type specimen is GIT 604-4, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Severnaya River, tributary of Nizhnaya Tunguska River, Turukhansk region, which is in a Pragian coastal siltstone in the Razvedochnyj Formation of the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Eukaia.

Entered
by P. Novack-Gottshall on 2026-05-29; modified by P. Novack-Gottshall on 2026-05-29

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2013Eukaia elongata Mark-Kurik p. 132 fig. 2,3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
RankNameAuthor
superclassGnathostomata
classPlacodermiM'Coy 1848
—Arthrodira(Woodward 1891)
suborderActinolepidoidei
genusEukaia
specieselongata

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Eukaia elongata Mark-Kurik 2013
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Created: 2004-08-17 14:23:32
Modified: 2004-08-17 16:33:26
Source: o = order, subp = subphylum
Reference: Carroll 1988

Age range: Pragian or 413.02000 to 410.62000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Pragian413.02 - 410.62Russian Federation (Krasnoyarsk) Eukaia elongata (type locality: 278931)