Brachythoraci

Brachythoraci Temporal range: Devonian
Reconstruction of the coccosteine Coccosteus cuspidatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	†Placodermi
Order:	†Arthrodira
Suborder:	†Brachythoraci
Contained taxa
Family Heterosteidae Infraorder Coccosteina Family

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]

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