Asterosteus
Asterosteus Temporal range: Eifelian | |
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Artist's reconstruction of A. stenocephalus | |
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Genus: | Asterosteus |
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Asterosteus stenocephalus Newberry 1875 | |
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Asterosteus is a genus of rhenanid placoderm from the Eifelian. The type species, A. stenocephalus, is known from an incomplete skull from Middle Devonian strata in Ohio. What may be a second species ("Asterosteus sp Schmidtt 1963") is described from fragments decorated with star-shaped tubercules from the Eifelian-aged Gebze beds of Turkey.[1]
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References
[edit]- ^ Denison, Robert (1978). Handbook of Paleoichthyology, Volume 2, Placodermi. New York: Gustav Fischer Verlage. p. 25. ISBN 9780895740274.