Two new species of Dunkleosteus Lehman, 1956, from the Ohio Shale Formation (USA, Famennian) and the Kettle Point Formation (Canada, Upper Devonian), and a cladistic analysis of the Eubrachythoraci (Placodermi, Arthrodira)

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 195-222

  Carr, Robert K ^a   Hlavin, William J ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bass Energy Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspinothoracidi; Devonian; Dinichthyidae; Dunkleosteidae; Eubrachythoraci; Pachyosteomorphi; Panxiosteidae; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ARTHRODIRA; PLACODERMI;

EID: 77952941914     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00578.x     Document Type: Article

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