Pteraspidomorphi

Pteraspidomorphi
Temporal range:
Pteraspis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Infraphylum: Agnatha
Class: Pteraspidomorphi
Goodrich, 1909
Type species
Pteraspis rostrata
Agassiz, 1835
Subgroups[1]

Pteraspidomorphi is an extinct class of early jawless fish. They have long been regarded as closely related or even ancestral to jawed vertebrates, but the few characteristics they share with the latter are now considered as basal traits for all vertebrates.

  1. ^ "Pteraspidomorphi". After Carroll, 1988, and Janvier, 1997. Retrieved 26 October 2013.

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