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Phlyctaenius

Phlyctaenius is an extinct genus of placoderm fish, which lived during the Devonian period of New Brunswick, Canada. It was named by Traquair (1890) as a replacement for Phlyctaenium Zittel (1879), which was preoccupied.

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Phlyctaenius
Temporal range:
Skull roof of P. acadius (specimen RSM GY 1897.51.129)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: †Placodermi
Order: †Arthrodira
Family: †Phlyctaeniidae
Genus: †Phlyctaenius
Traquair, 1890
Species
  • †P. acadius Traquair, 1890
  • †P. australis Murray
  • †P. atholi Pageau, 1969
  • †P. stenosus Young, 1983
Synonyms
  • Phlyctaenium Zittel, 1879 (preoccupied)

Phlyctaenius is an extinct genus of placoderm fish, which lived during the Devonian period of New Brunswick, Canada.1 It was named by Traquair (1890)23 as a replacement for Phlyctaenium Zittel (1879), which was preoccupied.4

One species, P. anglicus, was known from remains found in England and Wales and was initially described by Traquair (1890).3 It was moved to Heightingtonaspis when the genus was described by White (1969).5

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References

  1. Young, V. T. (1985). "Taxonomy of the arthrodire Phlyctaenius from the Lower or Middle Devonian of Campbellton, New Brunswick, Canada". Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Geology Series. 37: 1–35.
  2. Traquair, R. H. (1890). "Note on Phlyctænius, a New Genus of Coccosteidæ". Geological Magazine. 7 (3): 144. Bibcode:1890GeoM....7..144T. doi:10.1017/s0016756800190053. ISSN 0016-7568.
  3. Traquair, R. H. (1890a). Notes on the Devonian fishes of Seumenac Bay and Campbelltown in Canada. Geol. Mag., London. 7: 15-22.
  4. Zittel, K. von. (1879)
  5. White, E.I. (1969). The deepest vertebrate fossil and other arctolepid fishes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 1(3): 293-310