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Gorgonichthys

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Gorgonichthys
Temporal range: Upper Famennian
Ventral plates of Gorgonichthys clarki
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Placodermi
Order:
Arthrodira
Suborder:
Brachythoraci
Infraorder:
Coccosteina
Superfamily:
Dinichthyloidea
Genus:
Gorgonichthys
Species:
G. clarki
Binomial name
Gorgonichthys clarki
Restoration
Gorgonichthys jaws.
The infragnathals (lower jaws) of Gorgonicthys with a 1-liter water bottle for scale (bottle is approximately 23 cm tall). These specimens were collected from the Cleveland Shale and are in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History's Department of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Gorgonichthys clarki is an extinct arthrodire placoderm of the superfamily Dinichthyloidea.[1] Fossils of G. clarki are found in the Upper Famennian Cleveland Shales of Late Devonian Ohio. G. clarki is estimated to have reached 6 meters in length. However it still may not have been as heavily built as its contemporary Dunkleosteus.[2]

References

  1. ^ Carr, R. K.; Hlavin, W. J. (1995). "Dinichthyidae (Placodermi):A paleontological fiction?". Geobios. 28: 85. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(95)80092-1.
  2. ^ http://www.palaeos.org/Gorgonichthys


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