Phlyctaeniidae

Phlyctaeniidae Temporal range: Devonian
Artist's reconstruction of the Phlyctaeniid placoderm Dicksonosteus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	†Placodermi
Order:	†Arthrodira
Family:	†Phlyctaeniidae
Genus:	†Dicksonosteus
Genera
Aggeraspis Arctaspis Arctolepis Cartieraspis Diadsomaspis Dicksonosteus Elegantaspis Gaspeaspis Heintzosteus Heterogaspis Huginaspis Kolpaspis Kueichowlepis Lyhoalepis Neophlyctaenius Pageauaspis Phlyctaenius Prosphymaspis

Phlyctaeniidae is an extinct family of placoderm fishes that lived during the Devonian period, mainly in Norway and North America.

Phylogeny[]

ORDER ARTHRODIRA

• Infraorder
  • Family Actinolepidae
• Suborder Phlyctaenioidei
  • Family Holonematidae
  • Infraorder
    • Family Groenlandaspididae
    • Family Phlyctaeniidae

References[]

Henry Weed Fowler (1947). New taxonomic names of fish-like vertebrates.

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