Vernonaspis

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Vernonaspis
Temporal range: Upper Silurian
Veronaspis sp. (jawless fish) bonebed.jpg
Vernonaspis sp. mass mortality. Late Silurian, Cape Storm Formation, Cornwallis Island, Nunavut (Canada)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Infraphylum: Agnatha
Class: Pteraspidomorphi
Subclass: Heterostraci
Order: Cyathaspidiformes
Family: Cyathaspididae
Genus: Vernonaspis
Flower and Wayland-Smith, 1952
Type species
Veronaspis allenae
Flower and Wayland-Smith, 1952
Other species
  • V. leonardiFlower and Wayland-Smith, 1952
  • V. bamberiDenison et al., 1963
  • V. majorDenison et al., 1963
  • V. vaningeniDenison, 1964
  • V. epitegosaBroad and Lenz, 1972
  • V. parryiThorsteinsson and Elliott, 2022
  • V. suffuscaThorsteinsson and Elliott, 2022
  • V. magnaThorsteinsson and Elliott, 2022

Vernonaspis is an extinct genus of jawless fish that lived in the Silurian in the Paleozoic approximately 419 million years ago, in what is now Canada and the Northeastern United States. [1] [2]

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References

  1. Broad, D. S.; Lenz, A. C. (1972). "A New Upper Silurian Species of Vernonaspis (Heterostraci) from Yukon Territory, Canada". Journal of Paleontology. 46 (3): 415–420. ISSN   0022-3360.
  2. Denison, Robert H.; Denison, Robert H.; Bamber, E. W.; Hovdebo, H. R.; Lenz, A. C. (1963). New Silurian Heterostraci from southeastern Yukon. [Chicago]: Chicago Natural History Museum.