Coccosteoidea
Extinct superfamily of fishes
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Coccosteoidea is an extinct superfamily of arthrodire placoderms that lived during the Devonian period.
| Coccosteoidea Temporal range: ~ | |
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| Artist's reconstruction of Coccosteus cuspidatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | †Placodermi |
| Order: | †Arthrodira |
| Suborder: | †Brachythoraci |
| Clade: | †Eubrachythoraci |
| Clade: | †Coccosteomorphi |
| Superfamily: | †Coccosteoidea Denison, 1978 |
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Phylogeny
Eubrachythoraci is divided into the sister clades Pachyosteomorphi and Coccosteomorphi, the latter of which can be further sub-divided into the two sister superfamilies Coccosteoidea and Incisoscutoidea, as shown in the cladogram below:[1]