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Cephalaspis | |
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Digital recreation of Cephalaspis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | †Osteostraci |
Genus: | †Cephalaspis Agassiz, 1835[1] |
Species: | †C. lyelli
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Binomial name | |
†Cephalaspis lyelli Agassiz, 1835
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Cephalaspis (from Greek: κεφαλή kephalḗ, 'head' and Greek: ἀσπίς aspís, 'shield') is a possibly monotypic genus of extinct osteostracan agnathan vertebrate. It was a trout-sized detritivorous fish that lived in the early Devonian.