Genus: Qikiqtania STEART, LEMBERG, DALY, DAESCHLER & SHUBIN, 2022
Etymology: Inuktitut, Qikiqtaaluk/Qikiqtani, the traditional name for the region where the fossil site occurs.

Species: wakei STEART, LEMBERG, DALY, DAESCHLER & SHUBIN, 2022
Etymology: In memory of David Wake, an eminent evolutionary biologist and transformative mentor, late of the University of California at Berkeley.

Holotype: NUFV 137

Locality: Nunavut Palaeontologicla Expedition site NV0401, 77°10.235’ N, 86°11.129'W, near the eastern arm of Bird Fiord, Southern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut Territory, Canada.

Horizon: Fram Formation, Okse bay Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Frasnian Stage, Late Early Devonian , Late Devonian.

Material: Fragmentary skull and fragmentary postcrania.

Note: Some scales are preserved.

Referred material:

NUFV 108-110: There specimens preserved skulls, pectoral and pelvic girdles and fins in articulation.
Note: Some specimens have scales.

NUFV 108-135: Fragmentary specimens.