Cosmacanthus
| Cosmacanthus Temporal range: Late Devonian, | |
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| Fossil of Cosmacanthus semistiatus - picture taken at Natural History Museum, Bonn University | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | †Placodermi |
| Order: | †Arthrodira |
| Family: | †Groenlandaspididae |
| Genus: | †Cosmacanthus Agassiz, 1845 |
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Cosmacanthus is an extinct genus of placoderms in the extinct family Groenlandaspididae that lived during the Late Devonian in Ireland, the UK, Russia and North America.[1] It was named by Louis Agassiz in 1845.[2]
- Names brought to synonymy
- †Cosmacanthus elegans, a synonym for †Nemacanthus elegans Evans, 1904 (elasmobranch)
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