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Simosteus
Temporal range: Frasnian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Placodermi
Order: Arthrodira
Family: Camuropiscidae
Genus: Simosteus
Species: S. tuberculatus
Miles & Dennis, 1982

Simosteus tuberculatus is a small arthrodire placoderm from the Gogo Formation of Western Australia. Unlike other members of the arthrodire family Camuropiscidae, S. tuberculatus had a short, snub-nose, as directly implied by the translation of its generic name, "snub-nosed bone." Although S. tuberculatus lacks the characteristic elongated nose, it shares other diagnostic features of camuropiscids, such as cheekplates sutured to the cranium.

So far, the only specimen known is of an incomplete cranium.

References

  1. Dennis, K.; Miles, R. S. (1982). "A eubrachythoracid arthrodire with a snubnose from Gogo, Western Australia". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 75: 153–166. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1982.tb01945.x.
Arthrodira
Gnathostomata
Placodermi
Arthrodira
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Arthrodira
Arthrodira
Wuttagoonaspidae
Phyllolepida
Phyllolepididae
Actinolepidae
Phlyctaenioidei
Phlyctaeniidae
Arctolepididae
Groenlandaspididae
Williamsaspididae
Brachythoraci
Holonematidae
Homostiidae
Migmatocephala
Buchanosteidae
Eubrachythoraci
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Kudjanowiaspis

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Groenlandaspis riniensis
Eubrachythoraci
Coccosteomorphi
Coccosteoidea
Coccosteidae
Panxiosteidae
Incisoscutoidea
Camuropiscidae
Pachyosteomorphi
Dunkleosteoidea
Heterosteidae
Aspinothoracidi
Brachydeiridae
Selenosteidae
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Taxon identifiers
Simosteus


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