Phlebolepididae is an extinct
thelodont
Thelodonti (from Greek: "feeble teeth")Maisey, John G., Craig Chesek, and David Miller. Discovering fossil fishes. New York: Holt, 1996. is a class (biology), class of extinct jawless fishes with distinctive Fish scale, scales instead of large pl ...
agnatha
Agnatha (, Ancient Greek 'without jaws') is an infraphylum of jawless fish in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, consisting of both present (cyclostomes) and extinct ( conodonts and ostracoderms) species. Among recent animals, cyclosto ...
n family in the order
Phlebolepidiformes.
[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, ]
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Thelodonti
Prehistoric jawless fish families
Silurian first appearances
Silurian extinctions
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