Placodermi - Antiarcha - Bothriolepididae

Full reference: R. E. Weems, K. A. Beem, and T. A. Miller. 1981. A new species Bothriolepis (Placodermi: Bothriolepidae) from the Upper Devonian of Virginia (U.S.A.). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 94(4):984-1004

Belongs to Bothriolepis according to R. E. Weems 2004

See also Thomson and Thomas 2001 and Weems et al. 1981

Sister taxa: Bothriolepis africana, Bothriolepis alvesiensis, Bothriolepis amankonyrica, Bothriolepis antarctica, Bothriolepis askinae, Bothriolepis babichevi, Bothriolepis barretti, Bothriolepis bindareei, Bothriolepis canadensis, Bothriolepis cellulosa, Bothriolepis ciecere, Bothriolepis cristata, Bothriolepis cullodenensis, Bothriolepis curonica, Bothriolepis dairbhrensis, Bothriolepis dorakarasugensis, Bothriolepis evaldi, Bothriolepis extensa, Bothriolepis favosa, Bothriolepis fergusoni, Bothriolepis gigantea, Bothriolepis gippslandiensis, Bothriolepis grenfellensis, Bothriolepis groenlandica, Bothriolepis hayi, Bothriolepis heckeri, Bothriolepis hicklingi, Bothriolepis hydrophila, Bothriolepis jani, Bothriolepis jarviki, Bothriolepis jazwicensis, Bothriolepis jeremijevi, Bothriolepis karawaka, Bothriolepis kassini, Bothriolepis kohni, Bothriolepis kwangtungensis, Bothriolepis laverocklochensis, Bothriolepis leptocheira, Bothriolepis lochangensis, Bothriolepis lohesti, Bothriolepis longi, Bothriolepis macphersoni, Bothriolepis macrocephala, Bothriolepis maeandrina, Bothriolepis major, Bothriolepis markovskii, Bothriolepis mawsoni, Bothriolepis maxima, Bothriolepis nielseni, Bothriolepis nikitinae, Bothriolepis nitida, Bothriolepis niushoushanensis, Bothriolepis obesa, Bothriolepis obrutschewi, Bothriolepis ornata, Bothriolepis panderi, Bothriolepis paradoxa, Bothriolepis pavariensis, Bothriolepis perija, Bothriolepis portalensis, Bothriolepis prima, Bothriolepis rex, Bothriolepis shaokuanensis, Bothriolepis siberica, Bothriolepis sibirica, Bothriolepis sinensis, Bothriolepis sosnensis, Bothriolepis stevensoni, Bothriolepis tastenica, Bothriolepis tatongensis, Bothriolepis taylori, Bothriolepis traquairi, Bothriolepis traudscholdi, Bothriolepis tungseni, Bothriolepis turanica, Bothriolepis volongensis, Bothriolepis vuwae, Bothriolepis warreni, Bothriolepis wilsoni, Bothriolepis yeungae, Bothriolepis yunnanensis, Bothriolepis zhujiangyuanensis, Stenacanthus nitida

Type specimen: USNM 265220, a skull. Its type locality is Hunting Ridge, which is in a Devonian marine shale/sandstone in the Chemung Formation of Virginia.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Hunting Ridge

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