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Incisoscutoidea

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Incisoscutoidea
Temporal range: ~Devonian
Incisoscutum ritchiei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: †Placodermi
Order: †Arthrodira
Suborder: †Brachythoraci
Clade: †Eubrachythoraci
Clade: †Coccosteomorphi
Superfamily: †Incisoscutoidea
Trinajstic & Dennis-Bryan, 2009
Contained taxa

Incisoscutoidea is an extinct superfamily of arthrodire placoderms that lived during the Devonian period.

Phylogeny

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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]

Eubrachythoraci
Coccosteomorphi
Pachyosteomorphi

References

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  1. ↑ Zhu, You-An; Zhu, Min; Wang, Jun-Qing (1 April 2016). "Redescription of Yinostius major (Arthrodira: Heterostiidae) from the Lower Devonian of China, and the interrelationships of Brachythoraci". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 176 (4): 806–834. doi:10.1111/zoj.12356. ISSN 0024-4082.