†Torosteus Gardiner and Miles 1990 (armour-plated fish)
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Placodermi - Phlyctaeniiformes - Torosteidae
Full reference: B. Gardiner and R. Miles. 1990. A new genus of eubrachythoracid arthrodire from Gogo, Western Australia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 99:159-204
Parent taxon: Torosteidae according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Gardiner and Miles 1994 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Torosteus pulchellus Torosteus tuberculatus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Gogo Formation (Devonian of Australia)
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