Jagorina Temporal range: Upper Frasnian
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	†Placodermi
Order:	†Rhenanida
Family:	†Asterosteidae
Genus:	†Jagorina Jaekel, 1921
Species:	†J. pandora
Binomial name
†Jagorina pandora Jaekel, 1921

Jagorina pandora is a rhenanid placoderm of Upper Frasnian Germany. As with other rhenanids, it was a flattened, skate-like fish protected in an armor made up of unfused tubercles, and preyed on other, smaller fish by ambushing them from the sea bottom.

Although J. pandora is known primarily from bone fragments and an intact skull, it is the second most studied rhenanid, after Gemuendina stuertzi. It is from Jagorina that the details of the skull anatomy of rhenanids are known. Although scientists know of the overall anatomy and bodyplan of rhenanids because of G. stuertzi, very little information has been gleaned from the skulls of G. stuertzi, as all of the specimens of that species have been greatly flattened during fossilization.

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• Paleos Rhenanida

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Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Gnathostomata see Gnathostomata Placodermi see below↓ Placodermi
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