Lanarkia

Extinct genus of jawless fishes that lived in modern-day Scotland and Canada

Lanarkia
Temporal range: Upper Silurian
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Lanarkia horrida Illustration c.1900
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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.
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Taxon identifiers
Lanarkia


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