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Article: The genus Gigantaspis Heintz, 1962 (Vertebrata, Heterostraci) from the Lower Devonian of Spitsbergen

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 50
Part: 2
Publication Date: March 2007
Page(s): 323 346
Author(s): Vincent Pernegre and Daniel Goujet
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PERNEGRE, V., GOUJET, D. 2007. The genus Gigantaspis Heintz, 1962 (Vertebrata, Heterostraci) from the Lower Devonian of Spitsbergen. Palaeontology50, 2, 323–346.

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Abstract

Material collected in 1969 by the CNRS-MNHN expedition to Spitsbergen includes a new species of Gigantaspis, G. minima, which is the smallest known species of this genus. The revision of Gigantaspis leads to the inclusion of Zascinaspis laticephala Blieck and Goujet in this genus. The phylogenetic analysis presented herein suggests that Gigantaspis is close to Zascinaspis, as suggested by Blieck. Moreover, it is also close to generalized representatives of the Protaspididae. Their shared character states allow the definition of a possible ancestral morphotype for the Protaspididae.
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