Kimbryanodus
Extinct genus of fish
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Kimbryanodus is a genus of extinct ptyctodontid placoderm fish from the Frasnian of Australia.[1]These placoderms can be told apart from others due to the large eyes, crushing tooth plates, long bodies, reduced armor, and a superficial resemblance to holocephalid fish. The group is so far the only Placoderms known with sexually dimorphic features.[2] The fossils occur as small three dimensional isolated plates.[1] Because of these new specimens the Ptyctodontid grouping got a taxonomic classification, it found that the genus Rhamphodopsis to be the most basal taxa.[1] They are divided by having the more basal taxa having a median dorsal spine, a simple spinal plate, and a simple V-shaped overlap of the anterior lateral and the anterior dorsolateral plates.[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | †Placodermi |
| Order: | †Ptyctodontida |
| Family: | †Ptyctodontidae |
| Genus: | †Kimbryanodus Trinajstic & Long, 2009 |
| Species: | †K. williamburyensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Kimbryanodus williamburyensis Trinajstic & Long, 2009 | |