Sacabambaspis

Sacabambaspis
Temporal range: Dapingian-Sandbian
Sacabambaspis janvieri fossil cast of a specimen from Bolivia.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Infraphylum: Agnatha
Class: Pteraspidomorphi
Family: Sacabambaspidae
Genus: Sacabambaspis
Gagnier, Blieck & Rodrigo, 1986
Type species
Sacabambaspis janvieri
Gagnier, Blieck & Rodrigo, 1986
Species
  • S. janvieri Gagnier, Blieck & Rodrico, 1986

Sacabambaspis is an extinct genus of jawless fish that lived in the Ordovician period. Sacabambaspis lived in shallow waters on the continental margins of Gondwana.[1] It is the best known arandaspid with many specimens known.

  1. ^ Sansom, Ivan J.; Miller, C. Giles; Heward, Alan; Davies, Neil S.; Booth, Graham A.; Fortey, Richard A.; Paris, Florentin (2009). "Ordovician Fish from the Arabian Peninsula". Palaeontology. 52 (2): 337–342. Bibcode:2009Palgy..52..337S. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00846.x. S2CID 128704925.