Coelolepidae is an extinct family of
thelodont
Thelodonti (from Greek: "feeble teeth")Maisey, John G., Craig Chesek, and David Miller. Discovering fossil fishes. New York: Holt, 1996. is a class of extinct jawless fishes with distinctive scales instead of large plates of armor.
There is muc ...
vertebrate
Vertebrates () comprise all animal taxon, taxa within the subphylum Vertebrata () (chordates with vertebral column, backbones), including all mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. Vertebrates represent the overwhelming majority of the ...
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, cyclos ...
ns that lived during the Silurian.
[Pander, C. H., 1856. Monographie der fossilen Fische des silurischen Systems der russisch-baltischen Gouvernments. Buchdruckerei der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, St. Petersburg, 91 pp.]
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Thelodonti
Prehistoric jawless fish families
Silurian jawless fish
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