Vernonaspis is an extinct genus of jawless fish that lived in the Silurian in the Paleozoic approximately 419 million years ago, in what is now Canada and the Northeastern United States.[1][2]
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Vernonaspis
Temporal range: Upper Silurian |
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| Vernonaspis sp. mass mortality. Late Silurian, Cape Storm Formation, Cornwallis Island, Nunavut (Canada) |
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| Scientific classification |
| Domain: |
Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Chordata |
| Subphylum: |
Vertebrata |
| Infraphylum: |
Agnatha |
| Class: |
†Pteraspidomorpha |
| Subclass: |
†Heterostraci |
| Order: |
†Cyathaspidiformes |
| Family: |
†Cyathaspididae |
| Genus: |
†Vernonaspis
Flower and Wayland-Smith, 1952 |
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| Type species |
Veronaspis allenae
Flower and Wayland-Smith, 1952 |
| Other species |
- V. leonardi Flower and Wayland-Smith, 1952
- V. bamberi Denison et al., 1963
- V. major Denison et al., 1963
- V. vaningeni Denison, 1964
- V. epitegosa Broad and Lenz, 1972
- V. parryi Thorsteinsson and Elliott, 2022
- V. suffusca Thorsteinsson and Elliott, 2022
- V. magna Thorsteinsson and Elliott, 2022
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