| Coccosteina Temporal range: Devonian  | |
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| Artist's reconstruction of Coccosteus cuspidatus | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Chordata | 
| Class: | †Placodermi | 
| Order: | †Arthrodira | 
| Suborder: | †Brachythoraci | 
| Infraorder: | †Coccosteina Heintz, 1932  | 
| Superfamilies | |
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Coccosteina is an extinct infraorder of placoderms, armored fish most diverse during the Devonian.[1] However, the term is no longer in use, as modern cladistical methods have produced alternative phylogenetic trees of Brachythoraci with new subdivisions.[2][3][4]
Systematics
- Basal genus Maideria
 - Basal genus Xiangshuiosteus
 - Superfamily Buchanosteoidea
 - Superfamily Gemuendenaspoidea
- Family Gemuendenaspidae
 
 - Superfamily Homosteoidea
- Family Homostiidae
 
 - Superfamily Brachydeiroidea
- Family Brachydeiridae
 - Family Leptosteidae
 
 - Superfamily Coccosteoidea
- Family Pholidosteidae
 - Family Coccosteidae
 - Family Plourdosteidae
 - Family Torosteidae
 - Family Incisoscutidae
 - Family Camuropiscidae
 
 - Superfamily Dinichthyloidea
- Family Hadrosteidae
 - Family Dinichthyidae
 - Family Trematosteidae
 - Family Rhachiosteidae
 - Family Titanichthyidae
 - Family Bungartiidae
 - Family Selenosteidae
 - Family Mylostomatidae
 
 
References
- ↑ Heintz., Anatol, 1932, The structure of Dinichthys, a contribution to your knowledge of the Arthrodira: In: The Bashford Dean Memorial Volume Archaic Fishes Archived 2013-05-22 at the Wayback Machine, edited by Gudger, E. W., article IV, The American Museum of Natural History, 224pp.
 - ↑ Carr, R.K.; Hlavin, W.J. (2010). "Two new species of Dunkleosteus Lehman, 1956, from the Ohio Shale Formation (USA, Famennian) and the Kettle Point Formation (Canada, Upper Devonian), and a cladistic analysis of the Eubrachythoraci (Placodermi, Arthrodira)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 159 (1): 195–222. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00578.x.
 - ↑ You-An Zhu; Min Zhu (2013). "A redescription of Kiangyousteus yohii (Arthrodira: Eubrachythoraci) from the Middle Devonian of China, with remarks on the systematics of the Eubrachythoraci". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 169 (4): 798–819. doi:10.1111/zoj12089.
 - ↑ Zhu, You-An; Zhu, Min; Wang, Jun-Qing (1 April 2016). "Redescription of Yinostius major (Arthrodira: Heterostiidae) from the Lower Devonian of China, and the interrelationships of Brachythoraci". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 176 (4): 806–834. doi:10.1111/zoj.12356. ISSN 0024-4082.
 
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