''Lehmanosteus'' is an extinct

arthrodire Arthrodira (Greek for "jointed neck") is an order of extinct armored, jawed fishes of the class Placodermi that flourished in the Devonian period before their sudden extinction, surviving for about 50 million years and penetrating most marine e ...

placoderm fish. Its fossils have been found in

Early Devonian The Early Devonian is the first of three epochs comprising the Devonian period, corresponding to the Lower Devonian series. It lasted from and began with the Lochkovian Stage , which was followed by the Pragian from and then by the Emsian, whi ...

strate. It was first referred to as

Actinolepidae Actinolepidae is an extinct family of placoderm fishes which lived during the Early Devonian period. They are considered to be among the most primitive of the arthrodires, and are widely accepted to be phylogenetically basal to the group. Descr ...

sp.

References

Arthrodire genera Emsian life Fossil taxa described in 1984 {{Placoderm-stub