Coccosteina
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| Artist's reconstruction of Coccosteus cuspidatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | †Placodermi |
| Order: | †Arthrodira |
| Suborder: | †Brachythoraci |
| Infraorder: | †Coccosteina Heintz, 1932 |
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Coccosteina is an extinct infraorder of placoderms, armored fish most diverse during the Devonian. However, the term is no longer in use, as modern cladistical methods have produced alternative phylogenetic trees of Brachythoraci with new subdivisions.
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.
- ↑ 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 (1): 195–222. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00578.x.
- ↑ You-An Zhu; Min Zhu (2013). "A redescription of Kiangyousteus yohii (Arthrodira: Eubrachythoraci) from the Middle Devonian of China, with remarks on the systematics of the Eubrachythoraci". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 169 (4): 798–819. doi:10.1111/zoj12089.
- ↑ Zhu, You-An; Zhu, Min; Wang, Jun-Qing (1 April 2016). "Redescription of Yinostius major (Arthrodira: Heterostiidae) from the Lower Devonian of China, and the interrelationships of Brachythoraci". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 176 (4): 806–834. doi:10.1111/zoj.12356. ISSN 0024-4082.
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