Heterosteidae

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Heterosteidae
Temporal range: Emsian to Givetian
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Comparison of genera
Scientific classification
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Heterosteidae

Jaekel, 1903
Genera

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[]

  1. ^ Denison, Robert (1978). Placodermi Volume 2 of Handbook of Paleoichthyology. Stuttgart New York: Gustav Fischer Verlag. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-89574-027-4.
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