page_title: Sacabambaspis
section_title: Discovery and species
hierarchical_section_title: Sacabambaspis / Discovery and species
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Fossil of Sacabambaspis, an extinct fish- Took the photo at Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
context_page_description: Sacabambaspis is an extinct genus of jawless fish that lived in the Ordovician period. Sacabambaspis lived in shallow waters on the continental margins of Gondwana. It is the best known arandaspid with many specimens. It is related to Arandaspis.
context_section_description: Genus named after the village of Sacabamba, Cochabamba Department, Bolivia, where the first examples were found.
  S. janvieri (Gagnier, Blieck & Rodrico, 1986), the type species, is known from Anzaldo Formation, Bolivia. There are 30 known specimens of this Bolivian species, all crammed into a very confined area, believed to be the result of a fish kill, probably due a sudden inflow of freshwater from a large storm. They were found associated with a large number of lingulid brachiopods, also killed at the same time.
  S. sp. (Young, 1997), is known from the Stokes Siltstone and Carmichael Sandstone, Central Australia. Isolated scales found in the Horn Creek Siltstone from Central Australia have a very similar ornamentation to the Bolivian scales.
  S. sp. (Albanesi & Astini, 2002), is known from Argentina.
  S. sp.( Sansom et al., 2009), is known from Amdeh Formation, Oman, Arabian Peninsula. The Oman discoveries showed that the fish were present all around the margins of the ancient continent of Gondwana and not just in the southern regions as had previously been shown by the findings from South America and Australia.
caption: Specimens of Sacabambaspis at Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
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