Eugaleaspidiformes (from

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, "Helmet shield shapes") is an extinct order of jawless marine and freshwater fish, which lived in

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from the Telychian to the Lower Devonian period. The order was first named by Lui in 1965.

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Nochelaspis ''Nochelaspis'' is an extinct genus of Galeaspid. It lived during the Lochkovian period in Lower Devonian East Asia (in today southeastern China and northern Vietnam Shuyu ''Shuyu'' is an extinct genus of early jawless vertebrate from the Early or Middle Silurian period (late Telychian to early Wenlock stages). It is the basalmost known eugaleaspidiform galeaspid and it lived in what is now northwestern Zhejia ...

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Dunyu ''Dunyu'' (meaning "shield fish" in Hanyu Pinyin) is an extinct genus of eugaleaspidiform galeaspid known from the Silurian of Yunnan, southwestern China. Two species are known: ''D longiforus'', the type species and ''D. xiushanensis'', which wa ...

* Xitunaspis *

Yongdongaspis ''Yongdongaspis'', colloquially known as the Binhai Yongdong, is an extinct genus of galeaspid within the monotypic family Yongdongaspididae. The type species is ''Y. littoralis'' and it was found in the Silurian-aged Huixingshao Formation of Ch ...

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Galeaspida Early Devonian extinctions Prehistoric fish orders {{paleo-jawless-fish-stub