Tolypelepidida

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Tolypelepidida
Temporal range: Silurian - Early Devonian
Tolypelepis undulata.jpg
The type species, Tolypelepis undulata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Superclass: Agnatha
Class: Pteraspidomorphi
Subclass: Heterostraci
Order: Tolypelepidida
Denison 1964
Family: Tolypelepididae
Kiær 1932
Genera
Synonyms
  • Tolypelepidiformes

Tolypelepidida is an extinct order of heterostracan vertebrates. These armored jawless fish superficially resemble their relatives, the cyathaspids, though, researchers place the tolypelepids as a sister group to the cyathaspids and the pteraspidids (and both groups' daughter taxa). [1] A recent study by Lundgren and Blom in 2013 implies that the order is paraphyletic, with the type genus, Tolypelepis, being the sister taxon of Cyathaspidiformes. [2] The typical tolypelepid had a carapace formed from dorsal and ventral plates, and a scaly tail.

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References

  1. Janvier, Philippe (1997) Heterostraci The Tree of Life Web Project.
  2. Lundgren, Mette, and Henning Blom. "Phylogenetic relationships of the cyathaspidids (Heterostraci)." GFF 135.1 (2013): 74-84.