Coccosteina
Coccosteina is an extinct infraorder of placoderms, armored fish most diverse during the Devonian.[1] However, the term is no longer in use, as modern cladistical methods have produced alternative phylogenetic trees of Brachythoraci with new subdivisions.[2][3][4]
| Coccosteina Temporal range: Devonian | |
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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 |
| Superfamilies | |
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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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