Anchipteraspididae is an extinct family of
heterostracanvertebrates restricted to Late Silurian and Early Devonian strata of Arctic Canada.[1]
Anchipteraspidids superficially resemble the ancestral
cyathaspidids, but, the articulation and growth patterns of the plates clearly define them as
pteraspidids.
References
^Elliott, D. K. "A new subfamily of the Pteraspididae (Agnatha, Heterostraci) from the upper Silurian and lower Devonian of Arctic Canada." Palaeontology 27.1 (1984): 169-197.
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On the recent discovery of Pteraspidian fish in the upper Silurian rocks of North America. Edward Waller Claypole, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1885, volume 41, pages 48–64,
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10.1144/GSL.JGS.1885.041.01-04.10
Revised classification of Pteraspididae with description of new forms from Wyoming. Robert Howland Denison, Fieldiana. Geology ; v. 20, no. 1,
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