Brachythoraci
Brachythoraci Temporal range: Devonian | |
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Reconstruction of the coccosteine Coccosteus decipiens | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
Infraphylum: | Gnathostomata |
Class: | Placodermi |
Order: | Arthrodira |
Suborder: | Brachythoraci |
Contained taxa | |
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Brachythoraci is an extinct suborder of arthrodire placoderms, armored fish most diverse during the Devonian. The suborder previously only contained the infraorder Coccosteina, but the more basal family, Heterosteidae is now placed within there too.
Phylogeny
Below is a cladogram from Carr and Hlavin (2010).[1]
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References
- ↑ Carr, R. K.; Hlavin, W. J. (2010). "Two new species of Dunkleosteus Lehman, 1956, from the Ohio Shale Formation (USA, Famennian) and the Kettle Point Formation (Canada, Upper Devonian), and a cladistic analysis of the Eubrachythoraci (Placodermi, Arthrodira)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 159: 195. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00578.x.
- Haaramo, Mikko (2005): Mikko's Phylogeny Archive: †Arthrodira. Version of 2005-NOV-15. Retrieved 2007-SEP-13.
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