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Ctenaspidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Pteraspidomorphi

Order
  
Cyathaspidiformes

Phylum
  
Chordata

Subclass
  
Heterostraci

Rank
  
Family

Ctenaspidae

Similar
  
Ctenaspis, Pteraspidomorphi, Heterostraci

Ctenaspidae is a family of extinct cyathaspidiform heterostracan agnathans in the suborder Cyathaspidida.

If Amphiaspidida can be ignored as a daughter-taxon, the family Ctenaspidae contains Ctenaspis and its various sister-taxa originally contained within both Ctenaspididae and Ctenaspididae, including Allocryptaspis, Alainaspis, Zaphoctenaspis, Arctictenaspis, and Boothiaspis, which was first described as a "Canadian amphiaspid."

References

Ctenaspidae Wikipedia