''Eczematolepis'' is an extinct
genus
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of
ptyctodontidan from the
Milwaukee Formation
The Milwaukee Formation is a fossil-bearing geological formation of Middle Devonian age in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. It stands out for the exceptional diversity of its fossil biota (ecology), biota. Included are many kinds of marine life, marin ...
of
Wisconsin
Wisconsin ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michig ...
. Three species are known: ''E. fragilis'', ''E. pustulosus'' and ''E. telleri''.
[''Eastman, C. R.'' 1898 B, p. 55, fig. 49. 1899 B, p. 283.] It was originally classified as the genus ''Acantholepis'' but
that name was preoccupied.
References
Ptyctodontids
Givetian extinctions
Placoderm genera
Fossil taxa described in 1892
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