Brachythoraci

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Brachythoraci
Temporal range: Devonian
Reconstruction of the coccosteine Coccosteus decipiens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Placodermi
Order:
Arthrodira
Suborder:
Brachythoraci
Contained taxa

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]

Arthrodira 

References

  1. ^ 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.


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