Poraspis

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

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{{Taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Late Silurian|Lower Devonian}}

| image = Poraspis.jpg

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Chordata

| classis = Pteraspidomorphi

| subclassis = Heterostraci

| ordo = Cyathaspidiformes

| subordo = Cyathaspidida

| familia = Cyathaspidae

| genus = Poraspis

| genus_authority = Kiær, 1930

}}

Poraspis is an extinct genus of heterostracan.{{cite journal |author=David K. Elliott & Michael A. Petriello |year=2011 |title=New poraspids (Agnatha, Heterostraci) from the Early Devonian of the western United States |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=518–530 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2011.557113}} Fossils are found in Late Silurian and Early Devonian marine strata of Norway, Canada and the United States.

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