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Pteraspids
Temporal range:
late Silurian to end Devonian
Pteraspis NT.jpg
Artist's restoration of Pteraspis
Scientific classification
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Class:
Heterostraci
Order:
Pteraspidiformes
Type genus
Pteraspis

Pteraspids were early agnathan vertebrates. They lived from later Silurian to the end of the Devonian. Fossils are found in Canada, Europe and North America.

The whole group has the head and front of the body armoured. Delicate, finger-like parts of the plates were at the edges of the mouth. This suggests they were filter feeders taking plankton from the water column..

Pteraspis dunensis
Rhinopteraspis fossil

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