#the pain of obscure fossil taxa

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

I'm so sorry for this.

Grossaspis is a very obscure genus, it is only mentioned in the literature a few times and there are very few images of material or reconstructions of it. The original description is a very old German paper without any figures. I base my reconstruction on a drawing found in the Handbook of Paleoichthyology Volume 2- Placodermi, where it has a single paragraph. The rest I patched up with relatives like Bothriolepis (for the mouth structure for example)

Grossaspis would like you to know that you hurt its feelings.