Cosmacanthus
Extinct genus of fish
Cosmacanthus Temporal range: Late Devonian, 360.7–358.9 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
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Fossil of Cosmacanthus semistiatus - picture taken at Natural History Museum, Bonn University | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | †Placodermi |
Order: | †Arthrodira |
Family: | †Groenlandaspididae |
Genus: | †Cosmacanthus Agassiz, 1845 |
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Cosmacanthus is an extinct genus of placoderms in the extinct family Groenlandaspididae that lived during the Late Devonian in Ireland, the UK, Russia and North America.[1] It was named by Louis Agassiz in 1845.[2]
- Names brought to synonymy
- †Cosmacanthus elegans, a synonym for †Nemacanthus elegans Evans, 1904 (elasmobranch)
See also
References
External links
- "Cosmacanthus" at the Encyclopedia of Life
- "Cosmacanthus". Fossilworks. Gateway to the Paleobiology Database.
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