Named By: | unavailable |
Time Period: | Pragian |
Location: | Europe, particularly Belgium and Britain |
Size: | 20 centimetres long |
Diet: | Carnivore |
Fossil(s): | Many specimens known |
Classification: | | Chordata | Heterostraci | Pteraspidiformes | Pteraspidae | |
Pteraspis (meaning wing shield) is an extinct genus of pteraspidid heterostracan agnathan vertebrate that lived in the Pragian epoch of the Devonian period in what is now Britain and Belgium.