Bolivosteus
Extinct genus of fishes
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Bolivosteus chacomensis is a rhenanid placoderm from the Eifelian of Bolivia, and is the only placoderm known from the “Malvinokaffric” invertebrate faunas. The Malvinokaffric faunas represent a series of cold-water ecosystems near or at the South Pole during the Middle Devonian, and apparently lacked the presence of ammonoids, bryozoa, or colonial corals.[1] B. chacomensis is known from skull fragments and scales.
| Bolivosteus Temporal range: Eifelian | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | †Placodermi |
| Order: | †Rhenanida |
| Family: | †Asterosteidae |
| Genus: | †Bolivosteus |
| Species: | †B. chacomensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Bolivosteus chacomensis Goujet, Janvier & Suarez-Riglos, 1986 | |
