Kujdanowiaspis

Kujdanowiaspis
Temporal range: Early Devonian, 419–393 Ma
Artist's reconstruction of K. buczacziensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: †Placodermi
Order: †Arthrodira
Genus: †Kudjanowiaspis
Stensiö, 1942
Species
  • †Kudjanowiaspis buczacziensis (Brotzen, 1934) (type)
  • †Kudjanowiaspis podolica (Brotzen, 1934)
  • †Kudjanowiaspis rectiformis ? (Brotzen, 1934)

Kujdanowiaspis is an extinct genus of arthrodire placoderm fish from the Early Devonian of Podolia (Ukraine), Poland and Spain.[1][2][3] Kujdanowiaspis is known from many fragmentary head shields and body armours.[4]

  1. ^ Dupret, Vincent; Carls, Peter; Martínez-Pérez, Carlos; Botella, Héctor (2011-10-01). "First Perigondwanan record of actinolepids (Vertebrata: Placodermi: Arthrodira) from the Lochkovian (Early Devonian) of Spain and its palaeobiogeographic significance". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 310 (3): 273–282. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.07.019. ISSN 0031-0182.
  2. ^ Dupret, Vincent; Blieck, Alain (2009-01-01). "The Lochkovian–Pragian boundary in Podolia (Lower Devonian, Ukraine) based upon placoderm vertebrates". Comptes Rendus Geoscience. 341 (1): 63–70. doi:10.1016/j.crte.2008.09.007. ISSN 1631-0713.
  3. ^ Szrek, Piotr; Dupret, Vincent (2017). "Placoderms from the Early Devonian "placoderm sandstone" of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland with biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical implications". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 62. doi:10.4202/app.00395.2017. hdl:1885/204872.
  4. ^ Dupret, Vincent (2010). "Revision of the genus Kujdanowiaspis Stensiö, 1942 (Placodermi, Arthrodira, "Actinolepida") from the Lower Devonian of Podolia (Ukraine)". Geodiversitas. 32 (1): 5–63. doi:10.5252/g2010n1a1. S2CID 129505974.