Coccosteoidea

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Coccosteoidea
Temporal range: ~Devonian
File:C cuspidatus.png
Artist's reconstruction of Coccosteus cuspidatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Placodermi
Order: Arthrodira
Suborder: Brachythoraci
Clade: Eubrachythoraci
Clade: Coccosteomorphi
Superfamily: Coccosteoidea
Denison, 1978
Families

Coccosteoidea is an extinct superfamily of arthrodire placoderms that lived during the Devonian period.

Phylogeny

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Eubrachythoraci is divided into the sister clades Pachyosteomorphi and Coccosteomorphi, the latter of which can be further sub-divided into the two sister superfamilies Coccosteoidea and Incisoscutoidea, as shown in the cladogram below:[1]

Eubrachythoraci
Coccosteomorphi
Pachyosteomorphi

References

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