Bothriolepididae is a family of
antiarch
Antiarchi ("opposite anus") is an order of heavily armored placoderms. The antiarchs form the second-most successful group of placoderms after the arthrodires in terms of numbers of species and range of environments. The order's name was coin ...
placoderms
Placoderms (from Ancient Greek πλάξ 'plax'', ''plakos plate' and δέρμα 'dermaskin') are vertebrate animals of the class Placodermi, an extinct group of prehistoric fish known from Paleozoic fossils during the Silurian and the Dev ...
, known from the
Emsian
The Emsian is one of three faunal stages in the Early Devonian Epoch. It lasted from 410.62 ±1.95 million years ago to 393.47 ±0.99 million years ago. It was preceded by the Pragian Stage and followed by the Eifelian Stage. It is named after ...
, to
Famennian
The Famennian is the later of two faunal stages in the Late Devonian epoch. The most recent estimate for its duration is that it lasted from around 371.1 to 359.3 million years ago. An earlier 2012 estimate, still used by the International Commis ...
.
Taxonomy
The cladogram is from
Bothriolepid antiarchs (Vertebrata, Placodermi) from the Devonian of the north-western part of the East European Platform.
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Dianolepis''
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Monarolepis''
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Bothriolepis
''Bothriolepis'' (from , 'trench' and 'scale') was a widespread, abundant and diverse genus of antiarch placoderms that lived during the Middle to Late Devonian period of the Paleozoic Era.
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Grossilepis''
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Vietnamaspis''
References
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Antiarchi
Devonian fish
Prehistoric fish families
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