Anaspida

• No large bony shields

• Spines and long narrow overlapping scales, but evolutionary trend towards losing scales

• Some, along with lampreys, had a ring cartilage supporting a round sucker-like mouth, and branchial basket cartilages supporting the pharyngeal arches.

(see p. 170 for more. . .)

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