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Extinct order of fishes
Coccosteina is an
extinct
infraorder of
placoderms , armored fish most diverse during the
Devonian .
[1] However, the term is no longer in use, as modern
cladistical methods have produced alternative
phylogenetic trees of
Brachythoraci with new subdivisions.
[2]
[3]
[4]
Systematics
References
^ Heintz., Anatol, 1932, The structure of Dinichthys , a contribution to your knowledge of the Arthrodira: In:
The Bashford Dean Memorial Volume Archaic Fishes
Archived 2013-05-22 at the
Wayback Machine , edited by Gudger, E. W., article IV, The American Museum of Natural History, 224pp.
^ Carr, R.K.; Hlavin, W.J. (2010).
"Two new species of Dunkleosteus Lehman, 1956, from the Ohio Shale Formation (USA, Famennian) and the Kettle Point Formation (Canada, Upper Devonian), and a cladistic analysis of the Eubrachythoraci (Placodermi, Arthrodira)" .
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 159 (1): 195–222.
doi :
10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00578.x .
^ You-An Zhu; Min Zhu (2013). "A redescription of Kiangyousteus yohii (Arthrodira: Eubrachythoraci) from the Middle Devonian of China, with remarks on the systematics of the Eubrachythoraci".
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 169 (4): 798–819.
doi :
10.1111/zoj12089 .
^ Zhu, You-An; Zhu, Min; Wang, Jun-Qing (1 April 2016).
"Redescription of Yinostius major (Arthrodira: Heterostiidae) from the Lower Devonian of China, and the interrelationships of Brachythoraci" .
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 176 (4): 806–834.
doi :
10.1111/zoj.12356 .
ISSN
0024-4082 .