Burrinjucosteus
Burrinjucosteus Temporal range: Emsian | |
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Artist's reconstruction | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | †Placodermi |
Order: | Arthrodira |
Family: | Buchanosteidae White, 1952 |
Genus: | Burrinjucosteus |
Species: | B. asymmetricus |
Binomial name | |
Burrinjucosteus asymmetricus White, 1978 | |
Burrinjucosteus asymmetricus is an extinct buchanosteid arthrodire placoderm. Its fossils have been found in Emsian-aged marine strata of New South Wales, Australia.
B. asymmetricus is known from scraps of thoracic armor and the skullroof, which suggest a very large, but flattened animal.
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