Drepanolepis Wilson & Caldwell

Drepanolepis maerssae (bottom centre)

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Furcacaudiformes
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Classis: †Thelodonti Ordo: †Furcacaudiformes

Familia: †Drepanolepididae
Genus: †Drepanolepis
Species: †D. maerssae

Name

†Drepanolepis Wilson & Caldwell, 1998

• Type species: †Drepanolepis maerssae Wilson & Caldwell, 1998

References

• Wilson, M.V.H. & Caldwell, M.W. 1998. The Furcacaudiformes, a new order of jawless vertebrates with thelodont scales, based on articulated Silurian and Devonian fossils from northern Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18: 10–29. Reference page. 
• Wilson, M.V.H. & Märss, T. 2009. Theolodont phylogeny revisited, with inclusion of key scale-based taxa. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 58(4): 297–310. (PDF) Reference page. 

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