Narrominaspis

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Narrominaspis
Temporal range: Emsian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Placodermi
Order: Arthrodira
Suborder: Brachythoraci
Family: Buchanosteidae
Genus: Narrominaspis
Burrow, 2006
Species:
N. longi
Binomial name
Narrominaspis longi
Burrow, 2006

Narrominaspis longi is an extinct buchanosteid arthrodire placoderm. Its fossils, and those of the acanthothoracid, Connemarraspis , have been found in the late Lochkovian-aged marine strata of the Connemarra Formation in Australia.

It is considered a basal buchanosteid.

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