Tapinosteus
''Tapinosteus'' is an extinct monospecific genus of arthrodire placoderm from the Late Frasnian stage of the Late Devonian period. Fossils are found from Bad Wildungen, Germany. Phylogeny ''Tapinosteus'' is a basal (phylogeny), basal member of the clade Aspinothoracidi, which belongs to the clade Pachyosteomorphi, one of the two major clades within Eubrachythoraci. The cladogram below shows the phylogeny of ''Tapinosteus'': References

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Aspinothoracidi
Aspinothoracidi is a clade of placoderms, extinct armored fish most diverse during the Devonian. The gigantic apex predator ''Dinichthys'', is the best-known member of this group. Many other genera, such as the infamous ''Dunkleosteus'', were previously thought to be close relatives of ''Dinichthys'' and were grouped together in the family Dinichthyidae, though more recent studies have restricted that family to only its type species. Phylogeny Eubrachythoraci is divided into the clades Coccosteomorphi and Pachyosteomorphi, the latter of which can be further sub-divided into Aspinothoracidi and Dunkleosteoidea, as shown in the cladogram A cladogram (from Greek language, Greek ''clados'' "branch" and ''gramma'' "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms. A cladogram is not, however, an Phylogenetic tree, evolutionary tree because it does not s ... below: References Arthrodires {{Placoderm-stub ...
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