Jagorina Jaekel 1921 (armour-plated fish)

Placodermi - Rhenanida - Asterosteidae

Full reference: O. Jaekel. 1921. Paläontologische Berichte: Die Stellung der Paläontologie zu einigen Problemen der Biologie und Phylogenie. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 3(1):213-239

Parent taxon: Asterosteidae according to R. van der Laan 2019

See also Denison 1978 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Asterosteus, Gemuendina, Ohioaspis

Subtaxa: Jagorina pandora

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Bad Wildungen site (Devonian of Germany)

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