Cowielepis Explained

Cowielepis is an extinct genus of jawless fish in the class Anaspida. It is from the Cowie Harbour fish bed (Cowie Formation) of Stonehaven, Scotland, which age is considered as the Silurian (Wenlock to Ludlow),^{[1] [2]} or Early Devonian (Lochkovian).^{[3] [4]}

Habits

It was possibly a nectonic filter, of active locomotion, due to its physiognomy.

Distribution

Lochkovian of United Kingdom (Scotland).^[5]

Notes and References

1. Blom . Henning . 2008-09-12 . http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1671/0272-4634(2008)28[594:ANAFFT2.0.CO;2 A new anaspid fish from the Middle Silurian Cowie Harbour fish bed of Stonehaven, Scotland ]. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . en . 28 . 3 . 594–600 . 10.1671/0272-4634(2008)28[594:ANAFFT]2.0.CO;2 . 0272-4634.
2. Wellman . Charles H. . Lopes . Gilda . McKellar . Zoë . Hartley . Adrian . 2023-10-24 . Age of the basal ‘Lower Old Red Sandstone’ Stonehaven Group of Scotland: The oldest reported air-breathing land animal is Silurian (late Wenlock) in age . Journal of the Geological Society . en . 10.1144/jgs2023-138 . 0016-7649 . free . free . 2164/22754.
3. Suarez . Stephanie E. . Brookfield . Michael E. . Catlos . Elizabeth J. . Stöckli . Daniel F. . 2017-06-28 . A U-Pb zircon age constraint on the oldest-recorded air-breathing land animal . PLOS ONE . 12 . 6 . e0179262 . 2017PLoSO..1279262S . 10.1371/journal.pone.0179262 . 1932-6203 . 5489152 . 28658320 . free.
4. Brookfield . M. E. . Catlos . E. J. . Garza . H. . 2024-07-07 . The oldest ‘millipede’-plant association? Age, paleoenvironments and sources of the Silurian lake sediments at Kerrera, Argyll and Bute, Scotland . Historical Biology . en . 1–13 . 10.1080/08912963.2024.2367554 . 0891-2963.
5. https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=134040&is_real_user=1 The paleobiology database, Lochkov unit