Tapinosteus
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Extinct genus of fishes
Tapinosteus | |
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Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | †Placodermi |
Order: | †Arthrodira |
Suborder: | †Brachythoraci |
Clade: | †Eubrachythoraci |
Clade: | †Pachyosteomorphi |
Clade: | †Aspinothoracidi |
Genus: | †Tapinosteus Stensiö, 1963 |
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Tapinosteus is an extinct monospecific genus of arthrodire placoderm from the Late Frasnian stage of the Late Devonian period. Fossils are found from Bad Wildungen, Germany.[1]
Phylogeny
[edit ]Tapinosteus is a basal member of the clade Aspinothoracidi, which belongs to the clade Pachyosteomorphi, one of the two major clades within Eubrachythoraci. The cladogram below shows the phylogeny of Tapinosteus:[1]