Plataspis Westwood 1837 (armour-plated fish)

Placodermi - Arthrodira - Arctolepidae

Parent taxon: Arctolepidae according to D. L. Dineley and S. J. Metcalfe 1999

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Besom Farm Quarry, Shropshire - 'upper Cornstone' (Devonian of the United Kingdom)

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