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489 / Paleozoic
Lunaspis
Lunaspis broilii
Crescent-shaped lateral horns widened the head armor of a small bottom-dwelling placoderm.
View original image · 1600 × 1067- Time range
- About 410 million years ago
- Final stage
- Early Devonian
- Geographic range
- Shallow marine seafloor · Europe
01 / DEFINITION & ECOLOGY
What was Lunaspis?
Lunaspis (Lunaspis broilii) was an extinct organism known from About 410 million years ago, with a range in Shallow marine seafloor · Europe.
Life and ecology
It moved over the bottom and ate soft-bodied animals, worms or organic debris.
02 / DISAPPEARANCE
Why did Lunaspis disappear?
Middle Devonian turnover among placoderms is possible context, but it does not establish why the species disappeared.
03 / EVIDENCE
How do scientists know about Lunaspis?
Complete armor and impressions constrain the head and fin positions; feeding follows jaw form.
04 / SOURCES & FURTHER READING
Check the source record
Use the scientific name to compare taxonomy, occurrence records and the fossil record. Database coverage and classifications may differ.
05 / REVISION HISTORY
How has this record changed?
- Rewrote an extinction cause that presented environmental or faunal turnover as established; it is now given as context the record does not prove.
- Verified authoritative entity sources and added three responsive reconstruction sizes.
- Initial bilingual species record published.
06 / CORRECTIONS & ADDITIONS