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Dinichthyidae
Description | Dinichthys herzeri is an extinct, giant, marine arthrodire placoderm from the Late Devonian (Famennian stage) of Ohio and Tennessee. It was comparable in size, shape, and ecological role to the better-known Dunkleosteus. Originally described in 1868 by John Newberry on the basis of an incomplete skull roof and mandibles (AMNH 81), this species remains imperfectly known to this day. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinichthyidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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Source Data |
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Rank | family | |||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Dinichthyidae | |||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
Classification (GBIF) |
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Scientific Name | Dinichthyidae | |||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinichthyidae |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Eastmanosteus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Gorgonichthys genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Heintzichthys genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Platyaspis genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
References
Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!