Carolowilhelmina

Carolowilhelmina; Temporal range: Late Eifelian
	Artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Placodermi
Order:	Arthrodira
Family:	incertae sedis
Genus:	Carolowilhelmina
Species:	C. geognostica
Binomial name
	Carolowilhelmina geognostica; Mark-Kurik & Carls, 2002

Carolowilhelmina geognostica is an extinct arthrodire placoderm fish that lived in the Late Eifelian epoch (of Middle Devonian) of Spain. In life, C. geognostica was a long-snouted pelagic fish, superficially similar to the Australian Rolfosteus, from Gogo Formation and the European Oxyosteus of the Kellwasser facies of Bad Wildungen, Germany. As with Rolfosteus, Carolowilhelmina possessed a long tubular rostral plate, with small postnasal plates and low inferognathal plates. According to Mark-Kurik & Carls (2002), this placoderm may have lived in a pelagic environment with lush, floating algae and epiplankton. It is currently known only from an incomplete cranium that is about 40 cm (16 in) long. The fossil material is housed in the Natural Sciences museum of the University of Zaragoza, Spain (Museo de ciencias Naturales de la Universidad de Zaragoza).

Sources[]

Mark-Kurik, E & Carls, P. 2002. A Long-snouted Late Eifelian Arthrodire from Aragón (Spain). Revista Española de Paleontología, Madrid, pp. 117–135.

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