Coccosteoidea
Appearance
This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (May 2022) |
Coccosteoidea Temporal range: ~
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Artist's reconstruction of Coccosteus cuspidatus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | †Placodermi |
Order: | †Arthrodira |
Suborder: | †Brachythoraci |
Clade: | †Eubrachythoraci |
Clade: | †Coccosteomorphi |
Superfamily: | †Coccosteoidea Denison, 1978 |
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Coccosteoidea is an extinct superfamily of arthrodire placoderms that lived during the Devonian period.
Phylogeny
[edit]Eubrachythoraci is divided into the sister clades Pachyosteomorphi and Coccosteomorphi, the latter of which can be further sub-divided into the two sister superfamilies Coccosteoidea and Incisoscutoidea, as shown in the cladogram below:[1]
Eubrachythoraci | |
References
[edit]- ^ 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.