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Amphiaspis

Amphiaspis
Temporal range: Early Emsian
Amphiaspis argo.jpg
Amphiaspis argo reconstruction
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Pteraspidomorphi
Order: Cyathaspidiformes
Family: Amphiaspididae
Genus: Amphiaspis
Species: A. argo
Binomial name
Amphiaspis argo
Obruchev, 1936

Amphiaspis argo is the type species of the cyathaspidid taxon Amphiaspidida, and of the family Amphiaspididae. Its fossils are restricted to early Emsian-aged marine strata of the Taimyr Peninsula, Early Devonian Siberia. A. argo, as with all other amphiaspidids, is thought to have been a benthic filter feeder that lived on top of, or buried just below the surface of the substrate of hypersaline lagoon-bottoms.

So far, A. argos is known from at least one, incomplete cephalothoracic armor that is shaped vaguely like a pillow and is, from anterior to posterior, 24 centimeters long. The armor has a pattern of lateral sensory line canals. There is a prominent dorsal spine on the dorsoposterior end of the cephalothoracic armor. The animal had small, possibly degenerate eyes that were flanked laterally by a small, crescent-shaped preorbital opening at the anterior end of the armor. The small eyes, in turn, laterally flank a small, slit-shaped mouth at the center of the anterior-most end of the cephalothorax.


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