Birkenia

/bɜːrˈkeniə/ noun

A genus of extinct armored fish (agnathans) from the Paleozoic Era, roughly 400 million years old.

A scientific genus name derived from Birken, a location where fossils were found, using the Latinized '-ia' suffix standard in taxonomic nomenclature.

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