Biology:Lanarkia

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Short description: Extinct genus of jawless fishes

Lanarkia
Temporal range: Upper Silurian
Lanarkia spinosa 1.jpg
Lanarkia horrida fossil
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Infraphylum: Agnatha
Class: Thelodonti
Order: Furcacaudiformes
Family: Lanarkiidae
Genus: Lanarkia
Traquair, 1898
Type species
Lanarkia horrida
Traquair, 1898
Other species
  • Lanarkia lanceolata Marss & Ritchie, 1998
  • Lanarkia spinulosa Traquair, 1898
Synonyms
  • Lanarkia spinosa Traquair, 1898

Lanarkia is a genus of extinct thelodont agnathan which existed in what is now Scotland and Canada during the upper Silurian period.[1]

References

  1. Lanarkia horrida at www.fossilmuseum.net.

Wikidata ☰ Q6482927 entry