Weejasperaspis
Appearance
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Weejasperaspis Temporal range: Early Devonian
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Weejasperaspis gavini, Murrindalaspis wallacei & Brindabellaspis stensioi | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | †Placodermi |
Order: | †Acanthothoraci |
Family: | †Weejasperaspididae |
Genus: | †Weejasperaspis White, 1978 |
Species: | †W. gavini
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Binomial name | |
†Weejasperaspis gavini White, 1978
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Weejasperaspis is an extinct acanthothoracid placoderm found in the Taemas-Weejasper Reef, of the Early Devonian-aged Buchan Group in eastern Victoria, Australia and the type species is W. gavini.[1] Weejasperaspis differs from other acanthothoracids in that the median dorsal crest is short, and triangular-shaped. Its sister genus, Murrindalaspis, differs from it by having large, blade-like median dorsal crests that are recurved. Like Murrindalaspis, it is only known from a dorsal plate and ossified eyeballs.
References
[edit]- ^ White, E. I. (1978). The larger arthrodiran fishes from the area of Burrinjuck Dam, N. S. W. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 34: 149–262.