Taemasosteus
| Taemasosteus Temporal range: | |
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| Reconstruction of T. novaustrocambricus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | †Placodermi |
| Order: | †Arthrodira |
| Suborder: | †Brachythoraci |
| Family: | †Buchanosteidae |
| Genus: | †Taemasosteus White, 1952 |
| Type species | |
| Taemasosteus novaustrocambricus White, 1952 | |
| Species | |
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Taemasosteus is an extinct genus of arthrodire placoderm. Its fossils have been found in Emsian-aged marine strata in the Murrumbidgee Group in New South Wales, Australia. It contains two species, T. novaustrocambricus, and T. maclartiensis.
The genus (and a monotypic family, "Taemasosteidae") was originally erected on the basis of "an imperfect" left paranuchal plate, though more specimens were found, eventually leading "Taemasosteidae" to be subsumed into Buchanosteidae.
References
- 1 2 3 White, E. I. (1952). Australian arthrodires. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology, 1, 249–304.
- ↑ Long, John. (1984). New placoderm fishes from the Early Devonian Buchan Group, eastern Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 96. 173–186.
- ↑ White, Errol I. (1978). The larger arthrodiran fishes from the area of the Burrinjuck Dam, N.S.W. The Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 34, 149–262.
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