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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)[2][3] as a replacement for Phlyctaenium Zittel (1879), which was preoccupied.[4]
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| Skull roof of P. acadius (specimen RSM GY 1897.51.129) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | †Placodermi |
| Order: | †Arthrodira |
| Family: | †Phlyctaeniidae |
| Genus: | †Phlyctaenius Traquair, 1890 |
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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]
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Traquair, R. H. (1890). "Note on Phlyctænius, a New Genus of Coccosteidæ". Geological Magazine. 7 (3): 144–144. doi:10.1017/s0016756800190053. ISSN 0016-7568.
- ^ a b Traquair, R. H. (1890a). Notes on the Devonian fishes of Seumenac Bay and Campbelltown in Canada. Geol. Mag., London. 7: 15-22.
- ^ Zittel, K. von. (1879)
- ^ White, E.I. (1969). The deepest vertebrate fossil and other arctolepid fishes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 1(3): 293-310
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