Heterosteidae
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Phylum: | Chordata
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Family: | Heterosteidae Jaekel, 1903
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Heterosteidae is an extinct family of moderately large to giant, flattened, benthic arthrodire placoderms with distinctive, flattened, triangular skulls that are extremely broad posteriorly, but become very narrow anteriorly.[1]
Genera[]
Herasmius[]
Heterosteus[]
Yinostius[]
References[]
- ^ Denison, Robert (1978). Placodermi Volume 2 of Handbook of Paleoichthyology. Stuttgart New York: Gustav Fischer Verlag. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-89574-027-4.
Categories:
- Arthrodires
- Placoderm families
- Early Devonian first appearances
- Middle Devonian extinctions