Cosmacanthus

Cosmacanthus is an extinct genus of placoderms in the extinct family Groenlandaspididae.

Names brought to synonymy
  • †Cosmacanthus elegans, a synonym for †Nemacanthus elegans Evans, 1904 (elasmobranch)

Cosmacanthus
Temporal range: 360.7–318.1 Ma
Fossil of Cosmacanthus - picture taken at Natural History Museum, Bonn University
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
†Placodermi
Order:
†Arthrodiriformes
Suborder:
†Phlyctaeniida
Infraorder:
†Phlyctaeniina
Family:
†Groenlandaspididae
Genus:
†Cosmacanthus

Agassiz, 1845[1]
Species
  • †Cosmacanthus carinatus Davis 1883
  • †Cosmacanthus marginalis Davis 1883
  • †Cosmacanthus priscus (Mcoy 1848)
  • †Cosmacanthus semistriatus

See also

References
  1. Monographie des poissons fossiles du vieux grés rouge: ou système Dévonien (Old red sandstone) des Iles Britanniques et de Russie. L Agassiz, 1845


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