Ateleaspis

Ateleaspis
Temporal range: Wenlock to Lower Devonian
Ateleaspis tessellata
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Osteostraci
Order: Atelaspidiformes
Family: Ateleaspididae
Genus: Ateleaspis
Traquair, 1899
Species:
A. tessellata
Binomial name
Ateleaspis tessellata
Traquair, 1899

Ateleaspis is an extinct genus of primitive ostracoderm fish that lived in the Silurian period (Wenlock Epoch) to the Lower Devonian. Like other ostracoderms, Ateleaspis had a head shield similar to that of Cephalaspis. Species from Silurian period were found in Norway and Scotland, but now has been found also in Siberia from Early Devonian period.

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