Palaeacanthaspis

Extinct genus of fishes

Palaeacanthaspis Temporal range: Early Devonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

Artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	†Placodermi
Order:	†Acanthothoraci
Family:	†Palaeacanthaspidae
Genus:	†Palaeacanthaspis Brotzen, 1934
Species:	†P. vasta
Binomial name
†Palaeacanthaspis vasta Brotzen, 1934

Palaeacanthaspis vasta is an extinct acanthothoracid placoderm from the early Devonian of Europe.^[1]

References

^ Dupret, Vincent; Szaniawski, Hubert; Dec, Marek; Szrek, Piotr (2021). "New cranial material of the acanthothoracid placoderm Palaeacanthaspis vasta from the Lower Devonian of Podolia – phylogenetic and taxonomic significance". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 66. doi:10.4202/app.00857.2020. hdl:1885/294106. ISSN 0567-7920.

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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata

see Gnathostomata
Placodermi	see below↓

Placodermi

Acanthothoraci *

Hagiangella
Palaeacanthaspidae*	Arabosteus Dobrowlania Kimaspis Kolymaspis Kosoraspis Palaeacanthaspis Radotina Romundina Sudaspis Tlamaspis
Weejasperaspididae	Murrindalaspis Weejasperaspis

Palaeacanthaspis vasta

Diandongpetalichthys Neopetalichthys
Quasipetalichthyidae	Eurycaraspis Pauropetalichthys Quasipetalichthys
Macropetalichthyidae	Ellopetalichthys Epipetalichthys Lunaspis Macropetalichthys Notopetalichthys Shearsbyaspis Tongdzuylepis Wijdeaspis

- see Antiarchi

- see Arthrodira

Others

"maxillate placoderms"	Bianchengichthys Entelognathus Qilinyu Silurolepis?

Brindabellaspis
Holopetalichthys
Minjinia
Pseudopetalichthys
Stensioella
Xiushanosteus

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