Antarctaspidae

Antarctaspidae
Temporal range: Pragian to Givetian, Pragian–Givetian
Life Restoration of the type genus, Antarctaspis mcmurdoensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Placodermi
Order: Arthrodira
Suborder: Actinolepidoidei
Family: Antarctaspidae
White, 1968
Type genus
Antarctaspis
White, 1968
Genera

Antarctaspidae is a potentially polyphyletic extinct family of basal arthrodires known from China, Antarctica, and Australia. The family lasted from the Early to Middle Devonian.[1]

  1. ^ Zhu, Min; Wang, Jun-Qing; Wang, Shi-Tao (2010). "A new antarctaspid arthrodire (placoderm fish) from the Lower Devonian of Guangxi, China". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 48 (2).