Torosteus Gardiner and Miles 1990 (armour-plated fish)

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

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

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

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