Benneviaspidida

Benneviaspidida Temporal range: 416–398 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Early Devonian
Life restoration of Boreaspis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	†Osteostraci
Order:	†Benneviaspidida
Subgroups[1]
†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.

The cladogram below is adapted from Sansom (2009):^[1]

• Benneviaspidida at Palaeos
• Osteostraci by Philippe Janvier
• Osteostraci at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
• Early Devonian osteostracans from Russia