Temporal range: Late Devonian: Famennian, 371.1–359.3 Ma
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Reconstruction of Gorgonichthys clarki
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
†Placodermi
Order:
†Arthrodira
Suborder:
†Brachythoraci
Clade:
†Eubrachythoraci
Clade:
†Pachyosteomorphi
Clade:
†Aspinothoracidi
Genus:
†Gorgonichthys Claypole, 1892
Species
Gorgonichthys clarki Claypole, 1892 (type)
The infragnathals (lower jaws) of Gorgonicthys with a 1-liter water bottle for scale (bottle is approximately 23 cm tall). These specimens were collected from the Cleveland Shale and are in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History's Department of Vertebrate Paleontology.Ventral plates of Gorgonichthys clarki
Gorgonichthys is extinct monospecific genus of large arthrodire placoderm. Fossils are found in the Upper Famennian Cleveland Shales of Late Devonian in Ohio. The type species is Gorgonichthys clarki.
Cleveland Shales of Late Devonian in Ohio. The type species is Gorgonichthys clarki. Gorgonichthys had sharp, pointed edges on the dental plates of the upper...
left a monospecific family, though closely related to arthrodires like Gorgonichthys and Heintzichthys. The cladogram below from the study of Zhu & Zhu (2013)...
Henri Termier, the specimens were originally placed within the genus Gorgonichthys - that is, after Termier was able to convince his colleagues that the...
Jobbins et al. study, Heintzichthys was found to be a sister taxa to Gorgonichthys. Hansen, Michael C. (2005). "Phylum Chordata—Vertebrate Fossils". In...
(eating a shark), adult and juvenile Dunkleosteus terrelli (center), and Gorgonichthys (bottom). From the Famennian stage of the Late Devonian. Scientific...
study, Gymnotrachelus was found to be an outgroup to Heintzichthys and Gorgonichthys. Denison, Robert (1978). Handbook of Paleoichthyology, Volume 2, Placodermi...
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