Benneviaspidida

Benneviaspidida
Temporal range: Early Devonian
Life restoration of Boreaspis
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Agnatha
Class: †Osteostraci
Order: †Benneviaspidida
Subgroups
  • †Benneviaspis
  • †Ectinaspis
  • †Securiaspis
  • †Boreaspidoidea
    • †Hoelaspis
    • †Severaspis
    • †Boreaspididae
      • †Belonaspis
      • †Boreaspis
      • †Spatulaspis
      • †Tauraspis

Benneviaspidida is an order of osteostracan jawless fishes which lived in the Early Devonian. The fishes in this order have a flat headshield and are dorsoventrally depressed. The first canal to lateral sensory field bifurcates near the orbit.

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