Wladysagitta Temporal range: Early Devonian
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Dorsal view of W. janvieri | |
Artist's reconstruction of W. janvieri | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | †Osteostraci |
Order: | †Zenaspidida |
Family: | †Parameteoraspididae |
Genus: | †Wladysagitta Voichyshyn, 2006 |
Type species | |
†Wladysagitta janvieri Victor Voichyshyn, 2006
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Wladysagitta is an extinct genus of osteostracan jawless fish that existed during the lower Devonian period of what is now Podolia, Ukraine.[1] This taxon was named in honor of Polish paleontologist Dr. Władysław Zych (1899–1981), and from the Latin sagitta, meaning arrow, which is in reference to the arrow-like shape of its skull.[2]