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Definition of Cephalaspida
1. Noun. Extinct group of armored fish-like vertebrates; taxonomy is not clear.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Order Ostracodermi, Ostracodermi
Member holonyms: Cephalaspid, Osteostracan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cephalaspida
Literary usage of Cephalaspida
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publication by Palaeontographical Society (Great Britain) (1870)
"Cephalaspida have been found in Devonshire and Cornwall, in beds assigned ...
The calcified skeleton in Cephalaspida, apparently, was entirely confined to ..."
2. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"Family Cephalaspida. (After Woodward.) In the square a portion of the tubercular
surface is shown. Museum. ..."
3. A Bibliography of Fishes by Bashford Dean, Charles Rochester Eastman, Eugene Willis Gudger, Arthur Wilbur Henn, American Museum of Natural History (1917)
"... Cephalaspida?. Powrie, Ja mes, & Lankester, Л". Ray. A monograph of the fishes
of the Old Red Sandstone of Britain. ..."
4. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1898)
"... Fishes' I find the following general remarks applied to the whole of the
Cephalaspida :— "It would appear from the condition of the specimens preserved, ..."
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