Groenlandaspis

Groenlandaspis
Temporal range: Late Devonian
Artist's reconstruction of G. antarctica
Hatchling fossil of G. riniensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: †Placodermi
Order: †Arthrodira
Family: †Groenlandaspididae
Genus: †Groenlandaspis
Heintz, 1932[1]
Type species
Groenlandaspis mirabilis
Heintz, 1932[7]
Other species
  • G. pennsylvanica Daeschler et al., 2003[2]
  • G. antarctica Ritchie, 1975[3]
  • G. riniensis(Gess and Hiller, 1995)[4]
  • G. disjectus (Woodward, 1891) (originally Coccosteus disjectus)[3]
  • G. potyi Olive et al., 2015[5]
  • G. theroni (Chaloner et al., 1980)[2]
  • G. seni Janvier, P. and A. Ritchie. 1977[6]
  • G. thorezi Heintz, 1932[7]

Groenlandaspis is an extinct genus of arthrodire from the Late Devonian. Fossils of the different species are found in late Devonian strata in all continents except eastern Asia. The generic name commemorates the fact that the first specimens of the type species were found in Greenland.

  1. ^ "Fossilworks: Groenlandaspis". fossilworks.org.
  2. ^ a b Daeschler, E. B., Frumes, A. C. & Mullison, C. F., 2003: Groenlandaspidid Placoderm Fishes from the Late Devonian of North America. Records of the Australian Museum, 55 (1): 45–60.
  3. ^ a b Ritchie, A., 1975: Groenlandaspis in Antarctica, Australia and Europe. Nature, 254: 569–573.
  4. ^ GESS, R. W. & HILLER, N. A. (1995b). Preliminary catalogue of fossil algal, plant,arthropod, and fish remains from a Late Devonian black shale near Grahamstown,South Africa. In Annals of the Cape Provincial Museums (Natural History) (Volume 19),pp. 225–304. Cape Provincial Museums, Grahamstown, South Africa.
  5. ^ Olive, S., Prestianni, C. & Dupret, V., 2015: A new species of Groenlandaspis Heintz, 1932 (Placodermi, Arthrodira), from the Famennian (Late Devonian) of Belgium. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 35 (4): e935389. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2014.935389
  6. ^ Janvier, P. and A. Ritchie. 1977. Le genre Groenlandaspis Heintz (Pisces,Placodermi, Arthrodira) dans le D6vonien d'Asie. Colloques Researches Academie des Sciences de Paris, series D, 284:1385-1388.
  7. ^ a b Heintz, A., 1932: Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Devonischen Fischfaunen Ost-Grönlands. Skrifter om Svalbard og Ishavet, 42: 1–27.