Genus: Albarutheniaspis NEWMAN & PLAX, 2025
Etymology: Latin, Albaruthenia, for Belarus and Greek, aspis, "shield".
Species: bessonovae NEWMAN & PLAX, 2025
Etymology: In honor of the geologist Vilena Yakovlevna Bessonova who recovered the reamins of the new species from the core of the Petrikov 335 borehole.
Holotype: GIT 768-6
Locality: Petrikov 335 borehole at a depth of 490.9-574 m, Lelchitsy District, Gomel Region, Belarus.
Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Either the upper part of the Borovian Regional Stage or the lower part of the Kalinovichial Regional Stage, Upper Famennian Stage, Late Devonian Epoch, Late Devonian.
Material: An articulated specimen with parts of the ventral and lateral trunk shield and the anteirior part of the head in dorsal aspect.
Beeak down as follows:
GIT 768-6-1: Loose anterior pineal plate.
GIT 768-6-4: A natural impression of the front of GIT 786-6.
GIT 768-6-5: The dislocated right margina plate.
Referred material:
GIT 768-6-2: A right preorbital plate.
GIT 769-6-3: A left preorbital plate.