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Aethaspis
Extinct genus of fish
Aethaspis is an extinct genus of arthrodire placoderm fish from the Devonian period. Two species were described by Denison in 1958: Aethapsis major and Aethapsis utahensis. It is one of the more basal members of the order Arthrodira, as shown in the cladogram below:
| Actinolepidoidei Phlyctaeniina |
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