Phlyctaeniidae
Phlyctaeniidae is an extinct family of placoderm fishes that lived during the Devonian period, mainly in Norway and North America.
Phlyctaeniidae Temporal range: Devonian | |
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Artist's reconstruction of the Phlyctaeniid placoderm Dicksonosteus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | †Placodermi |
Order: | †Arthrodira |
Clade: | †Phlyctaenioidei |
Family: | †Phlyctaeniidae |
Genera | |
Phylogeny
ORDER ARTHRODIRA
- Infraorder Actinolepina
- Family Actinolepidae
- Suborder Phlyctaenioidei
- Family Holonematidae
- Infraorder Phlyctaeniina
- Family Groenlandaspididae
- Family Phlyctaeniidae
References
Henry Weed Fowler (1947). New taxonomic names of fish-like vertebrates.
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