Brachythoraci

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 

 

Dicksonosteus arcticus

 
Brachythoraci

 

Holonema westolli

 
 

 

Homosteus

 
 

 

Buchanosteus confertituberculatus

 
Eubrachythoraci

Coccosteomorphi

 

Coccosteus cuspidatus

 
 

 

Camuropiscis

 
 

Harrytoombsia

 
 
 
Pachyosteomorphi

Dunkleosteoidea

Panxiosteidae

 

Panxiosteus ocullus

 
 

Janiosteus timanicus

 
 
Dunkleosteidae

 

Eastmanosteus pustulosis

 
 

 

Eastmanosteus calliaspis

 
 

 

Golshanichthys asiatica

 
 

 

Westralichthys uwagedensis

 
 

 

Dunkleosteus terrelli

 
 

Dunkleosteus raveri

 
 

Dunkleosteus amblyodoratus

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Aspinothoracidi

 

Rhinosteus parvulus

 
 

 

Gymnotrachelus hydei

 
 

 

Dinichthys herzeri

 
 

 

Heintzichthys gouldii

 
 

 

Gorgonichthys clarki

 
 

Hadrosteus rapax

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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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