Kujdanowiaspis
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Genus of extinct fish
| Kujdanowiaspis | |
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| Artist's reconstruction of K. buczacziensis | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | †Placodermi |
| Order: | †Arthrodira |
| Genus: | †Kudjanowiaspis Stensiö, 1942 |
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Kujdanowiaspis is an extinct genus of arthrodire placoderm fish from the Early Devonian of Podolia (Ukraine), Poland and Spain.[1] [2] [3] Kujdanowiaspis is known from many fragmentary head shields and body armours.[4]
Classification
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Kujdanowiaspis consists of three species, all described in 1934: Kujdanowiaspis buczacziensis (type species), Kujdanowiapsis podolica, and Kudjanowiaspis rectiformis - although the independent status of K. rectiformis is in doubt, and is instead most likely K. podolica.[4] [5] [6] Kujdanowiaspis zychi was also named and described by Stensiö in 1945, but was reassigned to the new genus Erikaspis in 2007.[4] [5]
Kujdanowiaspis is one of the more basal members of the order Arthrodira, as shown in the cladogram below:[7]
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