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‖ Cephaˈlaspis Palæont.
[mod.L., f. Gr. κεϕαλή + ἀσπίς shield, buckler.]
A genus of fossil ganoid fishes found in the Old Red Sandstone, having a large buckler-shaped plate attached to the head: also called buckler-heads.
1842H. Miller O.R. Sandst. vii. (ed. 2) 161 The Cephalaspis is one of the most curious ichthyolites of the system.
Hence cephaˈlaspean, cephalaˈspidean adjs.
1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. xxiv. (1857) 527 The Cephalaspean genera, too..greatly puzzled me. 1872W. Symonds Rec. Rocks vi. 202 The little Cephalaspidean fish. |