Plourdosteus

Plourdosteus
Temporal range: 391.8–374.5Ma

GivetianFrasnian

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Placodermi
Order: Arthrodira
Family: Panxiosteidae
Genus: Plourdosteus
Ørvig, 1951

Plourdosteus is an extinct genus of placoderm, which was relatively widespread in Euramerica during the Givetian to Frasnian ages of the Devonian.[1] The name Plourdosteus commemorates the Plourde family at Miguasha.[2]

References

  1. S. V. Moloshnikov (2008). "The placoderm Plourdosteus livonicus (Eastman) in the early Frasnian of the Central Devonian Field and the trophic structure of the Mikhailovskii Fish Assemblage". Paleontological Journal 42 (6): 607–614. doi:10.1134/S0031030108060063.
  2. "Plourdosteus". Miguasha National Park. 2007. Retrieved June 21, 2010.