Coccosteina
Appearance
Coccosteina Temporal range: Devonian
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Infraorder: | Coccosteina Heintz, 1932
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Coccosteina is an extinct infraorder of placoderms, armored fish most diverse during the Devonian.[1]
Systematics
- Basal genus Maideria
- Basal genus Xiangshuiosteus
- Superfamily Buchanosteoidea
- Superfamily Gemuendenaspoidea
- Family Gemuendenaspidae
- Superfamily Homosteoidea
- Family Homostiidae
- Superfamily Brachydeiroidea
- Family Brachydeiridae
- Family Leptosteidae
- Superfamily Coccosteoidea
- Family Pholidosteidae
- Family Coccosteidae
- Family Plourdosteidae
- Family Torosteidae
- Family Incisoscutidae
- Family Camuropiscidae
- Superfamily Dinichthyloidea
- Family Hadrosteidae
- Family Dinichthyidae
- Family Trematosteidae
- Family Rhachiosteidae
- Family Titanichthyidae
- Family Bungartiidae
- Family Selenosteidae
- Family Mylostomatidae
References
- ^ Heintz., Anatol, 1932, The structure of Dinichthys, a contribution to your knowledge of the Arthrodira: In: The Bashford Dean Memorial Volume Archaic Fishes Archived 2013-05-22 at the Wayback Machine, edited by Gudger, E. W., article IV, The American Museum of Natural History, 224pp.