Phlebolepis
| Phlebolepis Temporal range: late Silurian
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| Phlebolepis elegans, thelodont from Late Silurian of Baltic states, Russia and England | |
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| Genus: | Phlebolepis Pander, 1856
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Phlebolepis is an extinct thelodont agnathan genus belonging to the family Phlebolepididae. Whole fossils are found in Late Silurian (Ludlow epoch) aged strata from Saaremaa, Estonia. Phlebolepis elegans was average-sized for a thelodont, 7 cm long.[1]
Life reconstruction of Phlebolepis elegans
References[]
- ^ Anatomy of the Silurian thelodont Phlebolepis elegans Pander. Mark V. H. Wilson and Tiiu Marss, Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2012, volume 61, issue 4, pages 261-276, doi:10.3176/earth.2012.4.06
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