heterostracan

Definitions of heterostracan
  1. noun
    extinct jawless fish with the anterior part of the body covered with bony plates; of the Silurian and Devonian
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    type of:
    agnathan, jawless fish, jawless vertebrate
    eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms
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