Maideria
| Maideria Temporal range: Givetian | |
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| Artist's reconstruction | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Infraphylum: | Gnathostomata |
| Class: | Placodermi |
| Order: | Arthrodira |
| Suborder: | Brachythoraci |
| Infraorder: | Coccosteina |
| Family: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | Maideria |
| Species: | M. falipoui |
| Binomial name | |
| Maideria falipoui Lelièvre 1995[1] | |
Maideria falipoui is a long-snouted brachythoracid arthrodire placoderm from the Lower Middle Givetian epoch of Middle Devonian South Morocco, in what is now the Anti-Atlas Mountains. Although M. falipoui superficially resembles Buchanosteus, albeit with an elongated snout or rostrum, M. falipoui is considered to be a basal member of the group Coccosteina, thus, it has not yet been given any familial ranking.
References
- ↑ LELIÈVRE, Hervé (1995). "Description of Maideria falipoui ng, n. sp., long-snouted brachythoracid (Vertebrata, Placodermi, Arthrodira) from the Givetian of Maider (South Morocco), with a phylogenetic analysis of primitive brachythoracids". Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural History , Paris 4 (17): 163–207.
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