Dicksonosteus

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Dicksonosteus
Fossil range: Early Devonian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Class: Placodermi
Order: Arthrodira
Family: Phlyctaeniidae
Genus: Dicksonosteus
Species: D. arcticus
Binomial name
Dicksonosteus arcticus
Goujet, 1975

Dicksonosteus is an extinct genus of basal arthrodire, placoderm fish, which lived during the Early Devonian period of Spitsbergen, Norway.