Kimberia Dennis-Bryan and Miles 1983 (armour-plated fish)

Placodermi - Phlyctaeniiformes

Full reference: K. Dennis-Bryan and R. S. Miles. 1983. Further eubrachythoracid arthrodires from Gogo, Western Australia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 77(2):145-173

Parent taxon: Coccosteoidea according to K. Dennis-Bryan and R. S. Miles 1983

See also Dennis-Bryan and Miles 1983 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxon: Coccosteidae

Subtaxa: Kimberia bispicatus Kimberia whybrowi

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Type: Kimberia whybrowi

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Gogo Formation (Devonian of Australia)

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