Vernonaspis

Vernonaspis is an extinct genus of jawless fish that lived in the Silurian in the Paleozoic approximately 419 million years ago, in what is now Canada and the Northeastern United States.^[1][2]

Phylum:Chordata

Infraphylum:Agnatha

Class:†Pteraspidomorpha

Subclass:†Heterostraci

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Vernonaspis Temporal range: Upper Silurian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Vernonaspis sp. mass mortality. Late Silurian, Cape Storm Formation, Cornwallis Island, Nunavut (Canada)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Infraphylum:	Agnatha
Class:	†Pteraspidomorpha
Subclass:	†Heterostraci
Order:	†Cyathaspidiformes
Family:	†Cyathaspididae
Genus:	†Vernonaspis Flower and Wayland-Smith, 1952
Type species
Veronaspis allenae Flower and Wayland-Smith, 1952
Other species
V. leonardi Flower and Wayland-Smith, 1952 V. bamberi Denison et al., 1963 V. major Denison et al., 1963 V. vaningeni Denison, 1964 V. epitegosa Broad and Lenz, 1972 V. parryi Thorsteinsson and Elliott, 2022 V. suffusca Thorsteinsson and Elliott, 2022 V. magna Thorsteinsson and Elliott, 2022

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