Melanosteus
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Genus of extinct fishes
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| Life restoration of Melanomontanosteus occitanus | |
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| Genus: | †Melanomontanosteus Prokofiev, 2023[1]
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| †Melanomontanosteus occitanus (Lelièvre & Goujet in Lelièvre, Feist, Goujet, & Blieck, 1987)[2]
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Melanomontanosteus is an extinct genus of selenosteid placoderm that lived during the Late Devonian. It contains one valid species, M. occitanus, known from fossils found in Southern France.
Taxonomy
[edit ]Melanosteus occitanus was named by Hervé Lelièvre and Daniel Goujet in 1987 for a specimen from Montagne Noire consisting of the jaws and the cranial and thoracic armor.[2] However, that genus name was preoccupied by the melanosclerite Melanosteus.[3] In 2023, Artem M. Prokofiev proposed Melanomontanosteus as a replacement name.[1]
Phylogeny
[edit ]Melanomontanosteus has been classified as a member of the family Selenosteidae since its original description.[2] Below is a simplified cladogram based on the results of Jobbins et al. (2022).[4]