Cephalaspidae

This article is about the prehistoric fish taxon. For the gastropod taxon, see Cephalaspidea.

Cephalaspidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	†Osteostraci
Subclass:	†Cornuata
Order:	†Cephalaspidida
Family:	†Cephalaspidae Huxley 1861
Genera
†Cephalaspis †Didymaspis Lankester 1867 †Eukeraspis Lankester 1870 †Witaaspis

Cephalaspidae is an extinct family of jawless fish in the class Osteostraci.

References

J. A. Moy-Thomas and R. S. Mile. 1971. Palaeozoic Fishes
T. H. Huxley. 1861. Preliminary essay upon the systematic arrangement of the fishes of the Devonian Epoch. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, decade 10 23:1-40

External links

Cephalaspidae at the Encyclopedia of Life
Cephalaspidae at fossilworks.org (retrieved 16 April 2016)

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