Coccosteina
Encyclopedia
The Coccosteina were an infraorder of placoderms, armored fish most diverse during the Devonian
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Devonian
The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic Era spanning from the end of the Silurian Period, about 416.0 ± 2.8 Mya , to the beginning of the Carboniferous Period, about 359.2 ± 2.5 Mya...
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Systematics
- Basal genusGenusIn biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
Maideria - SuperfamilyTaxonomic rankIn biological classification, rank is the level in a taxonomic hierarchy. Examples of taxonomic ranks are species, genus, family, and class. Each rank subsumes under it a number of less general categories...
Buchanosteoidea- FamilyFamily (biology)In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Buchanosteidae
- Family
- Superfamily Gemuendenaspoidea
- Family Gemuendenaspidae
- Superfamily Homosteoidea
- Family Homosteiidae
- Superfamily Brachydeiroidea
- Family Brachydeiridae
- Superfamily Coccosteoidea
- Family Pholidosteidae
- Family Coccosteidae
- Family Plourdostenidae
- Family Torosteidae
- Family Incisoscutidae
- Family Camuropiscidae
- Superfamily DinichthyloideaDinichthyloideaThe Dinichthyloidea were a superfamily of placoderms, armored fish most diverse during the Devonian. They contain numerous extremely large species, such as Titanichthys agassizi which fed on small animals and the apex predator Dunkleosteus terrelli....
- Family Dinichthyidae
- Family Trematosteidae
- Family Rachiosteidae
- Family Pachyosteidae
- Family Titanichthyidae
- Family Bungartiidae
- Family Selenosteidae
- Family Mylostomatidae