| Erikaspis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | †Placodermi |
| Order: | †Arthrodira |
| Genus: | †Erikaspis Dupret, Goujet & Mark-Kurik, 2007 |
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Erikaspis is an extinct monospecific genus of arthrodire placoderm fish found in Lochkovian-Pragian (Lower Devonian) deposits of Podolia, Western Ukraine. The type species Erikaspis zychi was originally described in 1945 by Erik Stensiö based on a partial skull-roof, and was named Kujdanowiaspis zychi. In 2007, it was subsequently reassigned to the newly named genus Erikaspis, based on significant differences from Kujdanowiaspis.[1][2]
It is one of the more basal members of the order Arthrodira, as shown in the cladogram below:[3]
Actinolepidoidei
Phlyctaeniina |
References[edit]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Dupret, Vincent; Goujet, Daniel; Mark-Kurik, Elga (2007). "A New Genus of Placoderm (Arthrodira: 'Actinolepida') from the Lower Devonian of Podolia (Ukraine)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27 (2): 266–284. ISSN 0272-4634.
- ^ Dupret, V.; Zhu, M. I. N.; Wang, J. N. Q. (2009). "The morphology of Yujiangolepis liujingensis (Placodermi, Arthrodira) from the Pragian of Guangxi (south China) and its phylogenetic significance". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 157: 70. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00519.x.
