Phlyctaeniidae
Encyclopedia
Phlyctaeniidae is an extinct family
of placoderm fishes that lived during the Devonian
period, mainly in Norway
and North America
.
Family (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...
of placoderm fishes that lived during the Devonian
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...
period, mainly in Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
and North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
.
Phylogeny
ORDER ARTHRODIRA- Infraorder Actinolepina
- Family ActinolepidaeActinolepidaeActinolepidae is an extinct family of placoderm fishes which lived during the Early Devonian period....
- Family Actinolepidae
- Suborder Phlyctaenioidei
- Family Holonematidae
- Infraorder Phlyctaeniina
- Family Groenlandaspididae
- Family Phlyctaeniidae