Benneviaspidida

Benneviaspidida is an order of osteostracan jawless fishes which lived in the Early Devonian. The fishes in this order have a flat headshield and are dorsoventrally depressed. The first canal to lateral sensory field bifurcates near the orbit.

Benneviaspidida
Temporal range: Early Devonian
Life restoration of Boreaspis
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Osteostraci
Order: Benneviaspidida
Subgroups
  • Benneviaspis
  • Ectinaspis
  • Securiaspis
  • Boreaspidoidea
    • Hoelaspis
    • Severaspis
    • Boreaspididae
      • Belonaspis
      • Boreaspis
      • Spatulaspis
      • Tauraspis
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