Coccosteina
Extinct order of fishes
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Coccosteina is an extinct infraorder of placoderms, armored fish most diverse during the Devonian.[1] However, the term is no longer in use, as modern cladistical methods have produced alternative phylogenetic trees of Brachythoraci with new subdivisions.[2][3][4]
| Coccosteina Temporal range: Devonian | |
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| Artist's reconstruction of Coccosteus cuspidatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | †Placodermi |
| Order: | †Arthrodira |
| Suborder: | †Brachythoraci |
| Infraorder: | †Coccosteina Heintz, 1932 |
| Superfamilies | |
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Systematics
- Basal genus Maideria
- Basal genus Xiangshuiosteus
- Superfamily Buchanosteoidea
- Superfamily Gemuendenaspoidea
- Family Gemuendenaspidae
- Superfamily Homosteoidea
- Family Homostiidae
- Superfamily Brachydeiroidea
- Family Brachydeiridae
- Family Leptosteidae
- Superfamily Coccosteoidea
- Family Pholidosteidae
- Family Coccosteidae
- Family Plourdosteidae
- Family Torosteidae
- Family Incisoscutidae
- Family Camuropiscidae
- Superfamily Dinichthyloidea
- Family Hadrosteidae
- Family Dinichthyidae
- Family Trematosteidae
- Family Rhachiosteidae
- Family Titanichthyidae
- Family Bungartiidae
- Family Selenosteidae
- Family Mylostomatidae
