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Definition of Cephalaspid

1. Noun. Extinct jawless fish of the Devonian with armored head.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cephalaspid

Literary usage of Cephalaspid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1900)
"PROCEEDINGS OF THE Exhibition of Anomalous Bones from Pre-dynastic Egyptian Skeletons. By Professor MACALISTER. [Read 1 May 1900.] Ammocoetes a cephalaspid. ..."

2. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1900)
"These observations of Kupffer give the strongest possible hint that the cephalaspid passed through a larval stage, which terminated with a transformation ..."

3. Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland by Royal Geological Society of Ireland (1871)
"It is possible that these -Dingle beds may be the same as those which contain cephalaspid fish in Scotland and Wales, and that these will have to be ..."

4. Journal (1871)
"It is possible that these Dingle beds may be the same as those which contain cephalaspid fish in Scotland and Wales, and that these will have to be ..."

5. The Origin of Vertebrates by Walter Holbrook Gaskell (1908)
"... and to the cephalaspid on the other ; for, whereas the exact counterpart of the opening of such a tube is always found on the dorsal head-shield in all ..."

6. Publication by Palaeontographical Society (Great Britain) (1870)
"is more or less that of a cephalaspid with head and body. ... character of its dermal ossifications) than that it is the ventral covering of a cephalaspid. ..."

7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"... Traquair), of which it is said that " this is the first occurrence of a cephalaspid in rocks of later age than the Lower Devonian.''! ..."

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