Lanarkia

Lanarkia
Temporal range: Upper Silurian
Lanarkia horrida fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Superclass: Agnatha
Class: Thelodonti
Order: Furcacaudiformes
Family: Lanarkiidae
Genus: Lanarkia
Traquair, 1898
Species: L. horrida
Binomial name
Lanarkia horrida
Synonyms
  • Lanarkia spinosa

Lanarkia horrida is an extinct thelodont agnathan which existed in what is now Scotland during the upper Silurian period.[1]

References

  1. Lanarkia horrida at www.fossilmuseum.net.
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