Burrinjucosteus
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| Family: | White, 1952
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| Genus: | Burrinjucosteus
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| Species: | B. asymmetricus
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| Burrinjucosteus asymmetricus White, 1978
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Burrinjucosteus asymmetricus is an extinct buchanosteid arthrodire placoderm. Its fossils have been found in Emsian-aged marine strata of New South Wales, Australia.
B. asymmetricus is known from scraps of thoracic armor and the skullroof, which suggest a very large, but flattened animal.
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