Grossaspis White and Moy-Thomas 1940 (armour-plated fish)

Placodermi - Antiarcha

Synonym: Ceraspis Schlüter 1887 [replaced name]

Full reference: E. I. White and J. A. Moy-Thomas. 1940. Notes on the nomenclature of fossil fishes - Part I. Homonyms A-C. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 5:502-507

Parent taxon: Antiarcha according to R. Denison 1978

See also Jordan 1963, Sepkoski 2002, White and Moy-Thomas 1940 and Woodward 1891

Sister taxa: Jiangxilepis, Lepadolepis, Liujiangolepis, Macrodontophion, Microbrachius, Phymolepis, Pterichthyodid, Silurolepidae, Xichonolepis, Yunnanolepiformes, Zhanjilepis, Minicrania, Walterilepis, Bothriolepidae, Jiangxilepididae

Subtaxa: Grossaspis carinata

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Bundenbach, Hunsrück (Devonian of Germany)

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