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Cardipeltidae
Description | Cardipeltis is an extinct genus of heterostracan agnathan from marine strata of early Devonian of Utah, and Wyoming. Species of Cardipeltis superficially resemble those of cyathaspids in having a flattened body and indistinct head covered by a large, broad, guitar pick or heart-shaped dorsal shield, and a long, scaly tail. Unlike cyathaspids, which all have a single ventral plate, however, the ventral shield of Cardipeltis is a mosaic composed of large scales. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardipeltidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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Source Data |
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Rank | family | |||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Cardipeltidae | |||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
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Scientific Name | Cardipeltidae | |||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardipeltidae |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Cardipeltis genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
References
Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!