Heightingtonaspis

Heightingtonaspis is an extinct genus of primitive arthrodire placoderm with two species previously allied with the genus Kujdanowiaspis.[1]

Heightingtonaspis
Temporal range: Early Devonian, Early
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
†Placodermi
Order:
†Arthrodira
Family:
†Actinolepidae
Genus:
†Heightingtonaspis

White, 1969
Type species
†Heightingtonaspis anglica
(Traquair, 1890)
Other species
  • †H. clarkei (Eastman, 1907)
  • †H. willsi (White, 1961)
Synonyms
  • Kujdanowiaspis clarkei Eastman, 1907
  • Kujdanowiaspis willsi White, 1961

The fossils of H. anglica were first discovered on the surface at Besom Farm Quarry, Shropshire, England and the fossils were radiocarbon dated in situ to 416 million years old.[2][3][4]


References
  1. Dupret, Vincent (2010). "Revision of the genus Kujdanowiaspis Stensiö, 1942 (Placodermi, Arthrodira, "Actinolepida") from the Lower Devonian of Podolia (Ukraine)". Geodiversitas. 32 (1): 5–63. doi:10.5252/g2010n1a1. S2CID 129505974.
  2. Robert Denison. (1978). Placodermi. In H.-P. Schultze (ed.), Handbook of Palaeoichthyology 2:1-128
  3. Dineley D. L., Metcalfe S. J. (1999) Chapter 4. Early Devonian fossil fishes sites of the Welsh Borders, Fossil Fishes of Great Britain, 2731
  4. White, E.I. (1969). The deepest vertebrate fossil and other arctolepid fishes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 1(3): 293-310


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