Rhachiosteus
Rhachiosteus | |
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Artist's reconstruction (with Trematosteus in the background) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
Class: | Placodermi |
Order: | Arthrodira |
Suborder: | Brachythoraci |
Infraorder: | Coccosteina |
Superfamily: | Dinichthyloidea |
Family: | Rhachiosteidae |
Genus: | Rhachiosteus |
Species: | R. pterygiatus |
Binomial name | |
Rhachiosteus pterygiatus Gross, 1938 | |
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Rhachiosteus pterygiatus is an extinct brachythoracid arthrodire placoderm from the Late Devonian of Germany. It is known only from a single specimen, which may be a larval or juvenile form, as the skull of said specimen is only 19 millimetres long.[1]
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