Cephalaspis is a possibly monotypic genus of extinct osteostracan agnathan vertebrate. It was a trout-sized detritivorous fish that lived in the early Devonian.
Cephalaspis
Cephalaspis lyellii reconstruction
Cephalaspis lyelli fossil
Cephalaspis lyelli fossil
The class Osteostraci is an extinct taxon of bony-armored jawless fish, termed "ostracoderms", that lived in what is now North America, Europe and Russia from the Middle Silurian to Late Devonian.
Osteostraci
Parameteoraspis fossilized headshield