| Tolypelepidida | |
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| The type species,Tolypelepis undulata | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Infraphylum: | Agnatha |
| Class: | †Pteraspidomorpha |
| Subclass: | †Heterostraci |
| Order: | †Tolypelepidida Denison 1964 |
| Family: | †Tolypelepididae Kiær 1932 |
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Tolypelepidida is an extinctorder ofheterostracanvertebrates. These armored jawless fish superficially resemble their relatives, thecyathaspids, though, researchers place the tolypelepids as a sister group to the cyathaspids and the pteraspidids (and both groups' daughter taxa).[1] A recent study by Lundgren and Blom in 2013 implies that the order isparaphyletic, with the type genus,Tolypelepis, being the sister taxon ofCyathaspidiformes.[2] The typical tolypelepid had a carapace formed from dorsal and ventral plates, and a scaly tail.
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