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    Arthrodira (redirect from Arthrodire)
    most marine ecological niches. Arthrodires were the largest and most diverse of all groups of placoderms. Arthrodire placoderms are notable for the movable...
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    primarily the arthrodires, were active, nektonic predators that dwelled in the middle to upper portions of the water column. A study of the arthrodire Compagopiscis...
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    Dunkleosteus is an extinct genus of large arthrodire ("jointed-neck") fish that existed during the Late Devonian period, about 382–358 million years ago...
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  • arowana, a bonytongue fish of the family Osteoglossidae Draconichthys, an arthrodire placoderm named after Stomiid dragonfishes Dragonfish (novel), a 2015...
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    Dunkleosteidae is an extinct family of arthrodire placoderms that lived during the Devonian period. The gigantic apex predator Dunkleosteus terrelli is...
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  • Sigaspis (category Arthrodire genera)
    Sigaspis is an extinct monospecific genus of arthrodire placoderm fish from the Early Devonian period. The type species Sigaspis lepidophora was described...
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  • Proaethaspis (category Arthrodire genera)
    Proaethaspis is an extinct monospecific genus of arthrodire placoderm fish from the Early Devonian period. The type species Proaethaspis ohioensis was...
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    selenosteid arthrodire placoderm from the Early Famennian upper Zhulumute Formation of what is now the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang. It is the first arthrodire known...
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    planet, lived during the Late Devonian Titanichthys, a planktivorous arthrodire from the Famennian of the Cleveland Shale of Ohio. Lower jaw of Eastmanosteus...
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  • Baringaspis (category Arthrodire genera)
    Baringaspis is an extinct monospecific genus of arthrodire placoderm fish from the Early Devonian period. The type species Baringaspis dineleyi was described...
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    Qataraspis (meaning "Qatar shield") is an extinct genus of primitive arthrodire placoderm that lived sometime around the Late Devonian in what is now Qatar...
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  • Eskimaspis (category Arthrodire genera)
    Eskimaspis is an extinct monospecific genus of arthrodire placoderm fish from the Early Devonian period. The type species Eskimaspis heintzi was described...
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  • Devonian stratigraphic unit in Arizona. The remains of both antiarch and arthrodire placoderms are known from the formation. "Lake Meade National Recreation...
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    Bryantolepis (category Arthrodires)
    Bryantolepis is an extinct genus of arthrodire placoderm fish from the Early Devonian period found in northern USA, and currently consists of two species...
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    Latocamurus is an extinct monospecific genus of flat-nosed arthrodire placoderm from the Early Frasnian stage of the Late Devonian period, found at the...
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    tuberculatus is a small arthrodire placoderm from the Gogo Formation of Western Australia. Unlike other members of the arthrodire family Camuropiscidae...
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  • Cavanosteus (category Arthrodire genera)
    Cavanosteus is an extinct genus of homostiid arthrodire from the Emsian of Victoria, and New South Wales, Australia. Cavanosteus is known from central...
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    Brachythoraci (category Arthrodires)
    Brachythoraci is an extinct suborder of arthrodire placoderms, armored fish most diverse during the Devonian. Arthrodira is divided into three main groups:...
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    2008-01-13. Retrieved 2008-01-13. Young, Gavin C. (2005). "Early Devonian arthrodire remains (Placodermi, ?Holonematidae) from the Burrinjuck area, New South...
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    JSTOR 1535537. DENNIS, K. and MILES, R. S. (1980), New durophagous arthrodires from Gogo, Western Australia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society...
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    branchial arch in early fish. Fish jaws surface in species of the large arthrodire genus Dunkleosteus (fl. 382–358 million years ago), which crushed prey...
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  • Atlantidosteus (category Arthrodire genera)
    Atlantidosteus is an extinct genus of homostiid arthrodire from the Early to Middle Devonian of Morocco and Queensland. It contains two known species,...
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  • Erikaspis (category Arthrodire genera)
    Erikaspis is an extinct monospecific genus of arthrodire placoderm fish found in Lochkovian-Pragian (Lower Devonian) deposits of Podolia, Western Ukraine...
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    Mcnamaraspis (category Arthrodires)
    Mcnamaraspis is an extinct monospecific genus of arthrodire placoderm that inhabited the ancient reef system of north Western Australia during the Frasnian...
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    Hollardosteus (category Enigmatic arthrodire taxa)
    Hollardosteus marocanus is a brachythoracid arthrodire placoderm from the Middle Devonian of Morocco. Its scrappy remains were found in Eifelian-aged strata...
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  • flattened bottom-dwellers, such as antiarchs. However many, particularly the arthrodires, were active midwater predators. Dunkleosteus, which appeared later in...
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    Antineosteus (category Arthrodire genera)
    Antineosteus is an extinct genus of homostiid arthrodire from the Emsian, Early Devonian Kess-Kess Mounds, in the eastern Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco...
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    Narrominaspis (category Arthrodire genera)
    Narrominaspis longi is an extinct buchanosteid arthrodire placoderm. Its fossils, and those of the acanthothoracid, Connemarraspis, have been found in...
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  • Aethaspis is an extinct genus of arthrodire placoderm fish from the Devonian period. Two species were described by Denison in 1958: Aethapsis major and...
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    Heterosteus (category Arthrodires)
    includes the largest species in the family, and are among the largest arthrodires, as well, with the type species, H. asmussi, having an estimated body...
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