Baringaspis
Baringaspis is an extinct monospecific genus of arthrodire placoderm fish from the Early Devonian period. The type species Baringaspis dineleyi was described in 1973, and was found in the Peel Sound Formation on Prince of Wales Island in Arctic Canada.[1]
| Baringaspis Temporal range: Early Devonian, | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | †Placodermi |
| Order: | †Arthrodira |
| Genus: | †Baringaspis Miles, 1973 |
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It is one of the more basal members of the order Arthrodira, as shown in the cladogram below:[2]
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Actinolepidoidei
Phlyctaeniina |
References
- Elliot, D. K. (1984). "Siluro-Devonian fish biostratigraphy of the Canadian arctic islands". Proc.Linn.Soc.N.S.W. 107 (3): 197–209.
- Dupret, V.; Zhu, M. I. N.; Wang, J. N. Q. (2009). "The morphology of Yujiangolepis liujingensis (Placodermi, Arthrodira) from the Pragian of Guangxi (south China) and its phylogenetic significance". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 157: 70. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00519.x.
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