Asterosteus

Asterosteus Temporal range: Eifelian
Artist's reconstruction of A. stenocephalus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	† Placodermi
Order:	Rhenanida
Family:	Asterosteidae
Genus:	Asterosteus
Type species
Asterosteus stenocephalus Newberry 1875
species
A. stenocephalus A. sp.

Asterosteus is a genus of rhenanid placoderm from the Eifelian. The type species, A. stenocephalus, is known from an incomplete skull from Middle Devonian strata in Ohio. What may be a second species ("Asterosteus sp Schmidtt 1963") is described from fragments decorated with star-shaped tubercules from the Eifelian-aged Gebze beds of Turkey.^[1]

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"Placodermi"

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Gnathostomata see Gnathostomata Placodermi see below↓ Placodermi

Acanthothoraci*	Hagiangella Palaeacanthaspidae* Arabosteus Dobrowlania Kimaspis Kolymaspis Kosoraspis Palaeacanthaspis Radotina Romundina Sudaspis Tlamaspis Weejasperaspididae Murrindalaspis Weejasperaspis
Petalichthyida	Diandongpetalichthys Neopetalichthys Quasipetalichthyidae Eurycaraspis Pauropetalichthys Quasipetalichthys Macropetalichthyidae Ellopetalichthys Epipetalichthys Lunaspis Macropetalichthys Notopetalichthys Shearsbyaspis Tongdzuylepis Wijdeaspis
Ptyctodontida	Austroptyctodus Campbellodus Chelyophorus Ctenurella Denisonodus Destnoporella Eczematolepis Goniosteus Kimbryanodus Materpiscis Meeksiella Palaeomylus Ptyctodopsis Ptyctodus Rhamphodopsis Rhynchodus
Rhenanida	Asterosteus Bolivosteus Gemuendina Jagorina Nefudina Ohioaspis
Antiarchi	see Antiarchi
Arthrodira	see Arthrodira
Others	"maxillate placoderms" Bianchengichthys Entelognathus Qilinyu Silurolepis? Brindabellaspis Holopetalichthys Minjinia Pseudopetalichthys Stensioella Xiushanosteus

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