Genus: Valentinaspis PLAX & NEWMAN, 2023
Etymology: From the combination of the first name of the Lithuanian vertebrate palaeontologist Valentina Karatajute-Talimaa (b. 1930), Valentina, and Greek, aspis, "shield".
Species: profundus PLAX & NEWMAN, 2023
Etymology: Latin, profundus, "deep"; relating to the deep orbital notches adn that the specimens were extrated from the dephts of a borehole.
= Kartalaspis bielorussica RZHONSNIKAYA 1990 (sic)
= Kartalaspis belorussica MARK-KURIK, 19881981 (nomen nudum)
Etymology:
Holotype: GIT 672-13
Locality: Raigla 425 borehole, Estonia.
Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Upper Emsian stage, Lower Devonian Epoch, Lower Devonian.
Material: Head.
Referred material:
Locality:Vilchitsy 1 borehole, Belarus.
Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Vitebsk Regional State, Upper Emsian stage, Lower Devonian Epoch, Lower Devonian.
Material:
GIT 672-1: Left anterior lateral plate.
GIT 672-2: An anterior part of a skull roof in part and counterpart.
GIT 672-3: Skul forof from a juvenile.
GIT 672-4: An incomplete left anterior dorsolateral plate (ADL).
GIT 672-5: A right posterior dorsolateral plate (PDL).
GIT 672-6: A left ventral part of a juvenile postcranial trunk section.
GIT 672-7: A left posterior ventrolateral plate (PVL).
GIT 672-8: An incomplete right spinal plate (Sp).
GIT 672-9: Left incomplete spinal (sp), anterior lateral (Al) and anterior ventrolateral plates (AVL).
GIT 672-10: A left posterior superognathal plate (PSG).
GIT 672-11: Incomplete right anterior lateral (AL), spinal (Sp) and anterior ventrolateral (AVL) plates.
GIT 672-12: A posterior median vetnral plate (PMV).