Baringaspis is an extinct monospecific genus of arthrodire placoderm fish from the Early Devonian period. The type species Baringaspis dineleyi was described in 1973, and was found in the Peel Sound Formation on Prince of Wales Island in Arctic Canada.[1]
It is one of the more basal members of the order Arthrodira, as shown in the cladogram below:[2]
Eurycaraspis incilis
Lunaspis broilii
Arthrodira
Yujiangolepis liujingensis
Antarctaspis mcmurdoensis
Wuttagoonaspidae
Wuttagoonaspis fletcheri
Yiminaspis shenme
Aethaspis major
Aethaspis utahensis
Lehmanosteus hyperboreus
Aleosteus eganensis
Simblaspis cachensis
Kujdanowiaspis buczacziensis
Kujdanowiaspis podolica
Erikaspis zychi
Sigaspis lepidophora
Eskimaspis heintzi
Baringaspis dineleyi
Proaethaspis ohioensis
Anarthraspis chamberlini
Heightingtonaspis anglica
Phyllolepida
Gavinaspis convergens
Austrophyllolepis sp.
Cowralepis mclachlani
Phyllolepis orvini
Placolepis budawangensis
Actinolepidae
Bollandaspis woschmidti
Actinolepis spinosa
Actinolepis magna
Actinolepis tuberculata
Bryantolepis brachycephalus
Phlyctaenioidei
Phlyctaeniidae
Groenlandaspidae
Arctaspidae
Dicksonosteus arcticus
Arctolepidae
Brachythoraci
Actinolepidoidei
Phlyctaeniina
^Elliot, D. K. (1984). "Siluro-Devonian fish biostratigraphy of the Canadian arctic islands". Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 107 (3): 197–209.
^Dupret, V.; Zhu, M. I. N.; Wang, J. N. Q. (2009). "The morphology of Yujiangolepis liujingensis (Placodermi, Arthrodira) from the Pragian of Guangxi (south China) and its phylogenetic significance" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 157: 70. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00519.x.
Baringaspis is an extinct monospecific genus of arthrodire placoderm fish from the Early Devonian period. The type species Baringaspis dineleyi was described...
of the more basal members of the order Arthrodira, closely related to Baringaspis, as shown in the cladogram below: Johnson, H.G.; Elliot, David; Wittke...
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