Cephalaspidae

{{Short description|Extinct family of jawless fishes}}

{{about|the prehistoric fish taxon|the gastropod taxon|Cephalaspidea}}

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| fossil_range =

| image =Cephalaspis tenuicornis.jpg

| image_caption =Cephalaspis tenuicornis

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Chordata

| classis = †Osteostraci

| subclassis = †Cornuata

| ordo = †Cephalaspidida

| familia = †Cephalaspidae

| familia_authority = Huxley 1861

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision =

| synonyms =

}}

Cephalaspidae is an extinct family of jawless fish in the class Osteostraci.

References

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  • J. A. Moy-Thomas and R. S. Mile. 1971. Palaeozoic Fishes
  • T. H. Huxley. 1861. Preliminary essay upon the systematic arrangement of the fishes of the Devonian Epoch. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, decade 10 23:1-40